New Publications and Initiatives in Byzantine Philosophy

There are a few new initiatives that will be of interest to network members and students interested in Byzantine Philosophy.

Be sure to check out network member Peter Adamson's podcast "The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps". In addition to great podcasts on the history of philosophy from a global perspective, upcoming episodes will deal specifically with Byzantine Philosophy.

This podcast can be found here:  https://historyofphilosophy.net/

Here's a note from Peter:

Soon the podcast will be turning to Byzantine philosophy! Here is a tentative episode list, not including interviews. This series will be followed by a longer one on the Renaissance, all of it of course appearing in alternating weeks with Africana philosophy. Comments welcome!

Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
Iconoclasm
John of Damascus
Byzantine Compendia
Michael Psellos
John Italos
Gender in Byzantine Thought
Anne Komnene and her Circle
Byzantine Histories
Byzantine Political Philosophy
The Proclus Controversy
Joane Petrizi
Bar Hebraeus
Intellectual Interchange with the Islamic World
Byzantine Manuscripts
Byzantine Natural Philosophy
Hesychasm
Plethon
Scholarius and Bessarion
Intellectual Interchange with Latin Christendom
The Orthodox Tradition Down to Today

In addition to this, be sure to check out these exciting new (special thanks to Ken Parry for bringing this to our attention):

A selection of papers in English by Linos Benakis have been published as Byzantine Philosophy: An introductory Approach (Staarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017).
There is a new English translation and commentary on George Gemisto Plethon’s On Aristotle’s Departures from Plato, by Börje Bydén, Katerina Ierodiakonou and others in Börje Bydén and Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist, eds. The Aristotelian Tradition: Aristotle’s Works on Logic and Metaphysics and Their Reception in the Middle Ages. Papers in Mediaeval Studies, 28 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). The first complete translation in English but without a commentary was by C. M. Woodhouse, George Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). 

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