HoP 310 - Purple Prose - Byzantine Political Philosophy
October 21st, 2018
Byzantine political thought from the time of Justinian down to the Palaiologos dynasty wrestles with the nature and scope of imperial power.
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HoP 309 - Hooked on Classics - Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning
October 7th, 2018
The trial of John Italos and other signs of Byzantine disquiet with the pagan philosophical tradition.
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HoP 308 - Dominic O’Meara on Michael Psellos
September 23rd, 2018
Dominic O'Meara speaks to Peter about Michael Psellos, focusing especially on his political philosophy.
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HoP 307 - Consul of the Philosophers - Michael Psellos
September 9th, 2018
Michael Psellos and his attitude towards pagan philosophy and the political life.
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HoP 306 - Collectors’ Items - Photius and Byzantine Compilations
July 29th, 2018
Photius, “the inventor of the book review,” and other Byzantine scholars who preserved ancient learning.
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HoP 305 - Andrew Louth on John of Damascus
July 15th, 2018
Peter is joined by Andrew Louth for a discussion of John of Damascus and his theological use of philosophy.
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HoP 304 - Behind Enemy Lines - John of Damascus
July 1st, 2018
John of Damascus helps to shape the Byzantine understanding of humankind and the veneration of images, despite living in Islamic territory.
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HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm
June 17th, 2018
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.
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HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
June 3rd, 2018
Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.
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HoP 301 - The Empire Strikes Back - Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
May 20th, 2018
We begin to look at the third tradition of medieval philosophy, in which the heritage of classical antiquity is preserved and debated by the Byzantines.
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HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
May 6th, 2018
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
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HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today
April 22nd, 2018
Rachel Barney, Christof Rapp, and Mark Kalderon join Peter to discuss the importance of ancient philosophy for today's philosophers.
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HoP 299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism
April 8th, 2018
Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes.
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HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
March 25th, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
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HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe
March 11th, 2018
New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.
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HoP 296 - Morning Star of the Reformation - John Wyclif
February 25th, 2018
John Wyclif refutes nominalism and inspires the Lollard movement, which anticipated Reformation thought with its critique of the church.
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HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson
February 11th, 2018
Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan.
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HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer
January 28th, 2018
Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.
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HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland
December 31st, 2017
Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”
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HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism
December 17th, 2017
Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.
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