Includes bibliographical references and index.

Edmund Fryde: An Appreciation: Daniel Huws -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Plates -- 1. Introduction -- 1 -- 2. The Preservation of Greek Literature in Antiquity and the Early Renaissance of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries -- 15 -- 3. From c. 1000 to the Disaster of the Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) -- 38 -- 4. The Nicaean Empire under the Lascarids (1204-58) -- 71 -- The Beginnings of the Palaeologan Renaissance: The Rule of Michael VIII (1258-82) -- 82 -- 6. The Reign of Andronikos II (1282-1328) -- 91 -- 7. Translations from Greek into Latin, Chiefly in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century -- 103 -- 8. Philological Scholarship, c. 1280-c. 1330: Main Features -- 144 -- The Scholarly and Literary Audience for the Early Palaeologan Renaissance -- 167 -- 10. Philosophy -- 183 -- 11. Higher Education and Rhetoric -- 213 -- 12. Maximos Planudes (1255-1305) -- 226 -- 13. Demetrios Triklinios -- 268 -- Manuel Moschopulos, Thomas Magistros and Some of Their Contemporaries -- 295 -- 15. Historiography in the Early Palaeologan Renaissance -- 307 -- 16. Theodore Metochites -- 322 -- 17. Science: Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine -- 337 -- 18. Nikephoros Gregoras -- 357 -- 19. The Twilight of the Scholarly Renaissance (after 1341) -- 374 -- 20. A Comparison Between the Byzantine and Italian Renaissances -- 388 -- Select Bibliography -- 399 -- Index of Manuscripts -- 407 -- Index of Names of Persons (down to c. 1500) -- 409 -- Index of Modern Authors -- 416.

The Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.

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