Byzantine and Renaissance philosophy

Part I. Philosophy in Byzantium. The Empire strikes back : introduction to Byzantine philosophy ; On the Eastern front : philosophy in Syriac and Armenian ; Don't picture this : iconoclasm ; Behind enemy lines : John of Damascus ; Collectors' items : Photius and Byzantine compilations ; Consul of the philosophers : Michael Psellos ; Hooked on classics : Italos and the debate over pagan learning ; Purple prose : Byzantine political philosophy ; The elements of style : rhetoric in Byzantium ; Past masters : Byzantine historiography ; Queen of the sciences : Anna Komnene and her circle ; Wiser than men : gender in Byzantium ; Just measures : law, money, and war in Byzantium ; Made by hand : Byzantine manuscripts ; Georgia on my mind : Petritsi and the Proclus revival ; People of the South : Byzantium and Islam ; Do the math : science in the Palaiologan Renaissance ; Through his works you shall know him : Palamas and Hesychasm ; United we fall : Latin philosophy in Byzantium ; Platonic love : Gemistos Plethon ; Istanbul (not Constantinople) : the later Orthodox tradition

Part II. The Italian Renaissance. Old news : the Italian Renaissance ; Greeks bearing gifts : Byzantine scholars in Italy ; Republic of letters : Italian humanism ; Literary criticism : Lorenzo Valla ; Difficult to be good : humanist ethics ; Chance encounters reviving Hellenistic philosophy ; We built this city : Christine de Pizan ; More rare than the phoenix : Italian women humanists ; All about Eve : the defense of women ; I'd like to thank the academy : Florentine Platonism ; Footnotes to Plato : Marsilio Ficino ; True romance : theories of love ; As far as East from West : Jewish philosophy in Renaissance Italy ; The Count of Concord : Pico della Mirandola ; What a piece of work is man : Manetti and Pico on human nature ; Bonfire of the vanities : Savonarola ; The sweet restraints of liberty : republicanism and civic humanism ; No more Mr. Nice Guy : Machiavelli ; Sense of humors : Machiavelli on republicanism ; The teacher of our actions : Renaissance historiography ; The good place : Utopias in the Italian Renaissance ; Greed is good : economics in the Italian Renaissance ; Town and gown : Italian universities ; I'd like to thank the Lyceum : Aristotle in Renaissance Italy ; Of two minds : Pomponazzi and Nifo on the intellect ; There and back again : Zabarella on scientific method ; The measure of all things : mathematics and art ; Just what the doctor ordered : Renaissance medicine ; Man of discoveries : Girolamo Cardano ; Spirits in the material world : Telesio and Campanella on nature ; The men who saw tomorrow : Renaissance magic and astrology ; Boundless enthusiasm : Giordano Bruno ; The harder they fall : Galileo and the Renaissance.