Proklos and Plethon on Beauty

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction: Byzantine Aesthetics 1
5. Theurgy and Aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite 13
6. Nikephoros Chumnos’ Treatise On Matter 31
7. Proklos and Plethon on Beauty 57
8. Toward a selfdetermined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael 75
9. Book and Image in Byzantine Christianity: Polemics or Communication? 105
10. Transcendent Exemplarism and Immanent Realism in the Philosophical Work of John of Damaskos 127
11. ‘Fire Walk With Me’: an attempt at an interpretation of Theurgy and its Aesthetics 143
12. Contribution of Church Slavonic Translations to Understanding of Byzantine Anti-Iconoclast Polemics (The Case of the Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Theophilos) 199
13. Historical Memory of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the Case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos 205
14. INDEX 235