1st Edition
Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1
Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and His Intellectual Circle
The Philosopher King
The Intellectual Circle at the Imperial Court prior to 1402 (Phase I)
The Intellectual Circle at the Imperial Court after 1402 (Phase II)
Chapter 2
The Schools in Constantinople
The School at the Xenon of the Kral
The “Patriarchal School” of Hagia Sophia
The School at the Monastery of St. John of Stoudios
The School at the Monastery of St. George of Mangana
Private Schools
Chapter 3
The Arrival of the Italian Humanists
Manuel Chrysoloras and the First Contact
The Arrival of the Italian Humanists in Constantinople
Chapter 4
The “Patriarchal School”
The Situation before the Fifteenth Century
The “Patriarchal School” during Manuel II Palaiologos’s Reign (1391–1425)
The Period before the Fall of 1453
The Reinstitution of the Patriarchal School in Ottoman Constantinople: The Library and the Scriptorium of Sultan Mehmed II
Part II
Chapter 5
The Teaching of Trivium and Quadrivium
Grammar
Poetry
Rhetoric
Philosophy
Quadrivium
Algebra
Geometry
Music/Harmony
Astronomy
Chapter 6
The Libraries and Manuscript Collections
The Imperial Library
The Patriarchal Library
Monastic Libraries
Private Collections
Conclusions
Bibliography
Biography
Elias Petrou is Assistant Professor and Librarian for Classical, Medieval, and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A historian and paleographer, his research focuses on the history and literature of the late medieval and early modern Greek world, with particular emphasis on Byzantine intellectual traditions. He holds a PhD from the University of Ioannina, Greece, and has held academic and research appointments at UCLA, UC Irvine, and the University of Vienna. His work explores the intersections of history, literature, and manuscript culture in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods.
