Preface Philosophy in Byzantium 1. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy 2. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian 3. Don't Picture This: Iconoclasm 4. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus 5. Collectors' Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations 6. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos 7. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning 8.
Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy 9. Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium 10. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography 11. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle 12. Wiser than Men: Gender in Byzantium 13. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium 14. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts 15. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival 16.
People of the South: Byzantium and Islam 17. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance 18. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm 19. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium 20. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon 21. Istanbul (not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox Tradition The Italian Renaissance 22. Old News: Introduction to the Renaissance 23. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy 24.
Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism 25. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla 26. Difficult to be Good: Humanist Ethics 27. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic philosophy 28. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan 29. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists 30. All About Eve: the Defense of Women 31. I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism 32.
Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino 33. True Romance: Theories of Love 34. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy 35. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola 36. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature 37. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola 38. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism 39. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli 40.
Sense of Humors: Machiavelli on Republicanism 41. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography 42. No Place Like Home: Renaissance Utopias 43. Greed is Good: Renaissance Economics 44. Town and Gown: Italian Universities 45. I'd Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy 46. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect 47. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method 48.
The Measure of All Things: Mathematics and Art 49. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine 50. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano 51. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature 52. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology 53. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno 54. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance.