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Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium: Context and Legacy
Author(s): Jonathan Greig (Editor), Joshua Robinson (Editor), Dragos Calma (Editor)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: May 29, 2025
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 460 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004512896
- ISBN-13: 9789004512894
Book Description
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally regarded as a polemical commentator on the late Neoplatonist Proclus, this volume highlights Nicholas’ substantial contribution to metaphysics and philosophical theology. It also situates his work within the broader intellectual context where Neoplatonism and its relation to Byzantine Christian theology were actively debated. The contributions gathered here are of particular significance for those interested in the Byzantine afterlife of late antique Neoplatonism and its legacy in the later Byzantine tradition and the Renaissance.
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About the Author
Jonathan Greig, Ph.D. (2018), LMU Munich, is Research Associate at HU Berlin and KU Leuven. His most recent monograph is The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism (Brill, 2021), and he has published on other topics in late antique and Byzantine philosophy.
Joshua Robinson, Ph.D. (2014), University of Notre Dame, is Byzantine Studies Librarian at Dumbarton Oaks Library. He has published on Byzantine theology and philosophy.
Dragos Calma, Ph.D. (2008), Sorbonne University, Associate Professor at University College Dublin, directs the ERC Grant NeoplAT: Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions supporting the research and publication of the current volume, of Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages (2 vols), Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes (3 vols), and others.
