PrefacePhilosophy in Byzantium1. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy2. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian3. Don't Picture This: Iconoclasm4. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus5. Collectors Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations6. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos7. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning8.
Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy9. Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium10. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography11. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle12. Wiser than Men: Gender in Byzantium13. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium14. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts15. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival16.
People of the South: Byzantium and Islam17. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance18. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm19. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium20. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon21. Istanbul (not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox TraditionThe Italian Renaissance22. Old News: Introduction to the Renaissance23. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy24.
Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism25. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla26. Difficult to be Good: Humanist Ethics27. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic philosophy28. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan29. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists30. All About Eve: the Defence of Women31. I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism32.
Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino33. True Romance: Theories of Love34. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy35. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola36. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature37. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola38. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism39. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli40.
Sense of Humors: Machiavelli on Republicanism41. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography42. No Place Like Home: Renaissance Utopias43. Greed is Good: Renaissance Economics44. Town and Gown: Italian Universities45. I'd Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy46. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect47. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method48.
The Measure of All Things: Mathematics and Art49. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine50. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano51. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature52. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology53. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno54. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance.