Michele Trizio
I am a Byzantinist specialized in the tradition and reception of antique and late-antique philosophical texts in the Greek Middle Ages. I hold two Phd's, in Medieval Philosophy and in Greek and Byzantine philology. After being awarded a fellowship by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Collection in 2012, I obtained the habilitation as Associate Professor in Byzantine Studies by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, Research. I am currently research fellow at the University of Bari (Italy).
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philosophers as mere scholars incapable of producing innovations, this paper
suggests that Byzantine intellectuals from the eleventh to twelfth-century
regarded scholarship as a spiritual endeavour that leads to a blessed lifestyle.
An analysis of four significant figures in Byzantine intellectual life makes
it clear that scholarship and paideia should not be disregarded as tokens
for merely antiquarian interest in antiquity but rather as tools for achieving
perfection in this life. This special status of perfection is often characterised
as an intermediate between an upper and lower boundary, to be identified
with philosophy and rhetoric. Finally, the paper locates the self-representation strategy of the Byzantine intellectuals within the broader picture of European
intellectual life in the Middle Ages.
philosophers as mere scholars incapable of producing innovations, this paper
suggests that Byzantine intellectuals from the eleventh to twelfth-century
regarded scholarship as a spiritual endeavour that leads to a blessed lifestyle.
An analysis of four significant figures in Byzantine intellectual life makes
it clear that scholarship and paideia should not be disregarded as tokens
for merely antiquarian interest in antiquity but rather as tools for achieving
perfection in this life. This special status of perfection is often characterised
as an intermediate between an upper and lower boundary, to be identified
with philosophy and rhetoric. Finally, the paper locates the self-representation strategy of the Byzantine intellectuals within the broader picture of European
intellectual life in the Middle Ages.