Brill's Studies in Intellectual History365 From Byzantium to the Early Greek Enlightenment

Written by an international group of scholars from Europe, the studies included in this volume bring to light and systematically investigate important but as a rule rather neglected aspects of early modern Greek literary production from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. This book explores early modern Greek literary and wider cultural production and its connections with different traditions and sociocultural or political networks in the multicultural milieus where it emerged and circulated, especially in parts of the Greek world under Venetian and Ottoman rules, or in major centers of the Greek diaspora across Western Europe. Particular emphasis is placed on scholarly debates about issues of historical and cultural continuities and discontinuities; the transition from manuscript production and circulation to print networks; and the negotiation of ethnic and cultural ideologies and broader mentalities as articulated in representative, but not necessarily ‘canonical,’ works of the period.