The Argument of Psellos' Chronographia
Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters; 68;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 8 June 1999
- ISBN 9789004114944
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 242x163x22 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A penetrating analysis of the Chronographia, which reveals how Psellos integrated his vision of a secular state and his philosophical opposition to Christianity into a historical narrative. Psellos' dissimulation and rhetorical techniques are examined thoroughly.
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This book is a philosophical interpretation of Michael Psellos' Chronographia, an acknowledged masterpiece of Byzantine literature. Anthony Kaldellis argues that although the Chronographia contains a fascinating historical narrative; it is really a disguised philosophical work which, if read carefully, reveals Psellos' revolutionary views on politics and religion.
Kaldellis exposes the rhetorical techniques with which Psellos veils his unorthodoxy, and demonstrates that the inner message of the text challenges the Church's supremacy over the intellectual and political life of Byzantium. Psellos consciously articulates a secular vision of Imperial politics, and seeks to liberate philosophy from the constraints of Christian theology.
The analysis is lucid and should be accessible to anyone with a general knowledge of Byzantine civilization. It should interest all who study the history of ancient and medieval philosophy.
'...an erudite, intriguing, invigorating, brilliant, and incendiary study...a pleasure to read?cogent and erudite...a brilliant book.?
Tia Kolbaba, Speculum, 2002.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Ethos and History
2. The Delusions of Romanos III
3. Egregorsis: An awakening to human affairs
4. Philosophy and Philology
5. A Wicked Doctrine
6. Imperial Askesis
7. The Secrets of the Virgin
8. An Impious Doctrine
9. The Secular Imperium
10. The Repudiation of Monasticism
11. The Liberation of Philosophy from Christianity
12. The Triumph of Nature Over Faith
13. Virtual Divine Grace
14. The Unspeakable Mysteries of Providence
15. Providence: Pietism or Prudence?
16. The Degeneracy of the Official Religion
17. Patron of Blasphemers
18. Psellos' Enigmatic Confession of Faith
19. Philospohy and Rhetoric
20. The True NAture of Rhetoric
21. A Rhetorical Performance
22. The Redemption of Rhetoric
23. Political Philospohy and the Rehabilitation of the Body
24. Psellos and Isaac Komenos
25. Philosophy and the Throne
26. Who is the author of the Chronographia?
Bibliography
Index of Passages
General Index
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