Recent research on Plethon has yielded some new interpretations and discovered hitherto unknown manuscripts and contexts (e.g., with the Jewish and Islamic world), while at the same time the relation between Western Europe and Byzantium is now studied as a mutual influence.
Plethon as a Byzantine thinker was a representative of 14th/15th-century Byzantine thought which manifested three basic types: Greek Christian Orthodoxy, interchange with the western European strains of thought (e.g., translation of scholastic works into Greek, but also evident in the Council of Ferrara- Florence), and a revival ("renaissance") of Greek culture, which has been variously named proto-nationalism in the 19th century, paganism from the Christian standpoint, Hellenism from the parallel to 19th-century Greek nostalgia. It remains to be seen, which of the three characteristics applies best to Plethon.
Plethon as a Byzantine thinker was a representative of 14th/15th-century Byzantine thought which manifested three basic types: Greek Christian Orthodoxy, interchange with the western European strains of thought (e.g., translation of scholastic works into Greek, but also evident in the Council of Ferrara- Florence), and a revival ("renaissance") of Greek culture, which has been variously named proto-nationalism in the 19th century, paganism from the Christian standpoint, Hellenism from the parallel to 19th-century Greek nostalgia. It remains to be seen, which of the three characteristics applies best to Plethon.
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