Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium : Context and Legacy (History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern)

Greig, Jonathan (EDT)/ Robinson, Joshua (EDT)/ Calma, Dragos (EDT)

Brill（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 446 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004512894

Full 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.

Contents

1 Introduction

 Jonathan Greig and Dragos Calma

Part 1 Nicholas of Methone and His Contemporary Intellectual Context

2 Ioanne Petritsi between Proclus and Nicholas of Methone

 István Perczel with the contribution of Levan Gigineishvili

3 Nicholas of Methone and Ioane Petritsi on Intellect

 Lela Alexidze

4 Different Understandings of Proclus' First Principle(s) in Nicholas of Methone and Ioanne Petritsi

 Levan Gigineishvili

5 Nicholas of Methone against Eustratios of Nicaea? On Proclus' Presence in the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics II

 Michele Trizio

Part 2 The Refutation and Nicholas' Other Works

6 Standards of Argument in Nicholas of Methone and Proclus: Comparing the Elementatio theologica with Nicholas' Attempts to Disarm It

 Jan Opsomer

7 A Relativistic Approach to Proclus: Nicholas of Methone's Critique of Elements of Theology § 67-74 (on Parts and Wholes)

 Arthur Oosthout

8 Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early Byzantines

 Jonathan Greig

9 The Motion of the Fertile One in Nicholas of Methone and Earlier Sources

 Joshua M. Robinson

10 Ontological Foundations and Methodological Applications of Analogy in Nicholas of Methone: An Example of Realism

 Christos Terezis and Lydia Petridou

11 12th-Century Philosophers and the Filioque: The Case of Nicholas of Methone's Corpus on the Procession of the Holy Spirit

 Alessandra Bucossi

12 Reconsidering Nicholas of Methone's Corpus on the Procession of the Holy Spirit

 Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto

Part 3 Nicholas of Methone's Reception and Legacy

13 The Discussion on Participation from Nicholas of Methone to Palamas and His Opponents

The Scholia on Proclus' Elementatio Theologica in Marcianus gr. 512

 Carlos Steel

14 Proclus (and Nicholas of Methone) in the Hesychast Controversy

 Börje Bydén

15 Marsilio Ficino and Nicholas of Methone on Platonic Theology

 Stephen Gersh

Index