First Byzantine humanism. Remarks and notes

The book is dedicated to the intellectual life of Byzantium from its beginning to the 10th century, most of all of the 9th -10th centuries - the period that is extremely important for the entire further development of world culture: it was then that the Scientists of the Byzantines rewritten and thus saved the heritage of ancient Greek authors for the descendants of the Heritage. The author traces the attitude to Hellenism in Byzantium from the emergence of the Empire until the tenth century - the century of Byzagpium encyclopedism. The book contains interesting information about Byzantine education, both school and higher, about the life of Byzantine teachers and students, about the libraries of the empire, both secular, monastic, and their contents, about how dark were dark In Byzantium, the so -called dark centuries", about the role of iconoclastic disputes in the revival and further fate of Byzantine Hellenism, about the emergence of a minuscular letter and about the fate of individual manuscripts that have survived to our time, about who and in what volume was available in Byzantium, about the education, about the ratio of worldly literature and religious and about the attitude of the Byzantines to it, about the disappeared books, whose content we know only from the mention of them in the works of Byzantine scientists, about the people, thanks to which we can still read the works of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Euripides, On the life and activities of the great Byzantine intellectuals, such as Leo Mathematician, Photius of Constantinople, Aref Patr.
The book is intended for all those interested in the history of education in Byzantium and its intellectual life