- List of Figures*
- List of Abbreviations
- A Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe [Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff]
- I. Reinventing Byzantium in the Fifteenth Century
- 1. Greek Identity and Ideas of Decline in Fifteenth-Century Byzantium: Gemistos Pletho and Bessarion [Fabio Pagani]
- 2. Making the Roman Past(s) Come Alive: Manuel Chrysoloras, Cyriac of Ancona, and Andrea Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar [Elena N. Boeck]
- II. Exploiting and Enacting Byzantium, ca. 1500–1750
- 3. Western Humanists and Byzantine Historians [Anthony Grafton]
- 4. Martin Crusius’s Lost Byzantine Legacy [Richard Calis]
- 5. Editing, Lexicography, and History under Louis XIV: Charles Du Cange and La byzantine du Louvre [Teresa Shawcross]
- 6. The Eighteenth-Century Reinvention of Du Cange as the French Nation’s Historian [Teresa Shawcross]
- 7. Performing Byzantium in Early Modern Theater [Przemysław Marciniak]
- III. Categorizing and Contextualizing Byzantium, ca. 1500–1750
- 8. The Lexicography of Byzantine Greek from Anna Notaras to Johannes Meursius [John Considine]
- 9. Erudition, Documentation, and Organization in the Making of Early Modern Byzantine Studies: The Case of Martin Hanke’s De Byzantinarum rerum scriptoribus Graecis liber (1677) [William North]
- 10. Montfaucon’s Byzantium [Shane Bobrycki]
- 11. Hagiography, Erudition, and the Emergence of Byzantinisme (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) [Xavier Lequeux]
- IV. Chronologies of Byzantium from the Enlightenment to Modernity
- 12. From the Rise of Constantine to the Fall of Constantinople: Defining Byzantium and the “Middle Age” in Early Modern Scholarship [Frederic Clark]
- 13. From “Empire of the Greeks” to “Byzantium”: The Politics of a Modern Paradigm Shift [Anthony Kaldellis]
- Conclusion: Byzance avant Byzance: Toward a New History of Byzantine Scholarship [Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff]
- Appendix I. Works by Du Cange Published during His Lifetime or in Press at His Death [Teresa Shawcross]
- Appendix II. The 1756 Inventory of Du Cange’s Papers: An Edition and Translation [Teresa Shawcross]
- List of Contributors
- Index
- * Figures
- 2.1. Job gazes upon his former city while seated on a pile of dung
- 2.2. A Renaissance drawing of the Constantinopolitan Bronze Horseman
- 2.3. Andrea Mantegna, Triumphs of Caesar, panel VI
- 2.4. Detail of figure 2.3
- 4.1. Crusius’s genealogy of the House of Osman
- 4.2. Crusius’s genealogy of the Palaiologan dynasty
- 4.3. Crusius’s drawing of the Battle of Varna
- 4.4. Matthaeus Franck’s 1566 pamphlet of the Siege of Szigetvár
- 4.5. Crusius’s annotated map of Constantinople, pasted in his copy of Choniates’ Histories
- 4.6. Crusius’s record in his copy of Choniates’ Histories of what he thought were variant readings, found in a manuscript version of this text
- 5.1. Charles du Fresne, Sieur du Cange
- 5.2. Saint Louis, IXth King of France of That Name, from Du Cange, Histoire de Saint Louys IX. du nom Roy de France
- 5.3. Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin and Stefano Della Bella, “Saint Louis IX,” Cartes des Rois de France
- 5.4. Henri Testelin Huygens, Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of the Sciences to Louis XIV
- 5.5. Pierre Giffart, personification of the city of Constantinople, from Du Cange, Historia Byzantina duplici commentario illustrata
- 5.6. A Sketch of the City of Constantinople as It Stood in the Year 1422, Thus Before the Turks Came to Power, from Du Cange, Historia Byzantina duplici commentario illustrata, vol. 2
- 5.7. Du Cange, a preparatory fiche for the Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ & infimæ Græcitatis
- 5.8. Du Cange, opening from the draft of “Notes on Anna Komnene’s Alexiad” with pasted feuilles volantes
- 5.9. Sketch of five of the enamel medallions from the True Cross of Amiens, after Du Cange 5.10 Enamel medallion with Saint John the Baptist
- 5.11. Genealogy of the Komnenoi, original sent to Du Cange via Samuel Guichenon
- 5.12. Allain Manesson Mallet and Johann David Zunner, The City of Candia depicted under siege
- 5.13. Martin Marvie, France, Fertile Mother of Great-Hearted Kings, a detail in the form of a rosette after Du Cange, “Genealogical Chart of the Kings of France”
- 6.1. The transmission of the papers of Charles du Fresne Du Cange
- 6.2. Jean-Charles du Fresne D’Aubigny, “Manuscripts of Mr du Cange”
- 6.3. “Inventory of the Manuscripts of M. Du Cange acquired from M. D’Aubigny”
- 11.1. Frontispiece from vol. 1 of January in the Acta Sanctorum
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library
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