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Chapter 2 - Forging Identities between Heaven and Earth

Commentaries on Aristotle and Authorial Practices in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2023

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Michele Trizio
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Baukje van den Berg ,
Divna Manolova  and
Przemysław Marciniak
Baukje van den Berg
Affiliation:
Central European University, Vienna
Divna Manolova
Affiliation:
University of York
Przemysław Marciniak
Affiliation:
University of Silesia, Katowice
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Summary

Between the eleventh and twelfth centuries a new class of authors specifically interested in classical philosophical texts appeared in Byzantium. After a long hiatus, these authors embarked upon a new adventure by producing commentaries on ancient philosophical texts. Their works are highly sophisticated and came to shape the Byzantine cultural landscape in this period and beyond. This chapter presents a survey of the middle Byzantine commentaries on philosophical works. For the first time, issues such as the conception of authoriality displayed in these commentaries, the different textual approaches, the transmission of these texts and the peculiar way of life of the Byzantine commentators are discussed and investigated from the point of view of the material and social conditions that favoured the production of these new texts.

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Byzantine philosophyMiddle Byzantine Periodphilosophical commentariestextual transmissionauthorshipAristotleEustratios of NicaeaMichael of EphesosAnna Komnene
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Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries , pp. 61 - 99
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