Norman Russell is an Orthodox translator and patristic scholar of partial Greek descent. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House of the University of Oxford and Professor of Patristics and Byzantine Theology of the Istituto Teologico 'Santa Eufemia di Calcedonia' of the Orthodox Exarchate of Italy. He has published two books on Gregory Palamas and a number of articles exploring Orthodoxy in the fourteenth century.

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• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Strategies of Religious and Cultural Survival1. The Recovery of Constantinople from the Latins2. The Ecclesiastical Revolution of 13473. Political Hesychasm: Philotheos Kokkinos and His Successors4. Siren Voices: Demetrios and Prochoros Kydones5. Salvation through Philosophy: Nikephoros Gregoras and George Gemistos Plethon6. Apostles of Union: Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore7. Opponents of Union: Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios8. Orthodoxy on the Eve of Imperial CollapseBibliographyIndex

Norman Russell is an Orthodox translator and patristic scholar of partial Greek descent. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House of the University of Oxford and Professor of Patristics and Byzantine Theology of the Istituto Teologico 'Santa Eufemia di Calcedonia' of the Orthodox Exarchate of Italy. He has published two books on Gregory Palamas and a number of articles exploring Orthodoxy in the fourteenth century.

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• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Strategies of Religious and Cultural Survival1. The Recovery of Constantinople from the Latins2. The Ecclesiastical Revolution of 13473. Political Hesychasm: Philotheos Kokkinos and His Successors4. Siren Voices: Demetrios and Prochoros Kydones5. Salvation through Philosophy: Nikephoros Gregoras and George Gemistos Plethon6. Apostles of Union: Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore7. Opponents of Union: Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios8. Orthodoxy on the Eve of Imperial CollapseBibliographyIndex

Norman Russell is an Orthodox translator and patristic scholar of partial Greek descent. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House of the University of Oxford and Professor of Patristics and Byzantine Theology of the Istituto Teologico 'Santa Eufemia di Calcedonia' of the Orthodox Exarchate of Italy. He has published two books on Gregory Palamas and a number of articles exploring Orthodoxy in the fourteenth century.

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• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Strategies of Religious and Cultural Survival1. The Recovery of Constantinople from the Latins2. The Ecclesiastical Revolution of 13473. Political Hesychasm: Philotheos Kokkinos and His Successors4. Siren Voices: Demetrios and Prochoros Kydones5. Salvation through Philosophy: Nikephoros Gregoras and George Gemistos Plethon6. Apostles of Union: Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore7. Opponents of Union: Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios8. Orthodoxy on the Eve of Imperial CollapseBibliographyIndex