Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium

Jonathan Greig, Ph.D. (2018), LMU Munich, is Research Associate at HU Berlin and KU Leuven. His most recent monograph is The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism (Brill, 2021), and he has published on other topics in late antique and Byzantine philosophy.Joshua Robinson, Ph.D. (2014), University of Notre Dame, is Byzantine Studies Librarian at Dumbarton Oaks Library. He has published on Byzantine theology and philosophy.Dragos Calma, Ph.D. (2008), Sorbonne University, Associate Professor at University College Dublin, directs the ERC Grant NeoplAT: Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions supporting the research and publication of the current volume, of Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages (2 vols), Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes (3 vols), and others.

• 1 IntroductionJonathan Greig and Dragos CalmaPart 1 Nicholas of Methone and His Contemporary Intellectual Context2 Ioanne Petritsi between Proclus and Nicholas of MethoneIstván Perczel with the contribution of Levan Gigineishvili3 Nicholas of Methone and Ioane Petritsi on IntellectLela Alexidze4 Different Understandings of Proclus’ First Principle(s) in Nicholas of Methone and Ioanne PetritsiLevan Gigineishvili5 Nicholas of Methone against Eustratios of Nicaea? On Proclus’ Presence in the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics IIMichele TrizioPart 2 The Refutation and Nicholas’ Other Works6 Standards of Argument in Nicholas of Methone and Proclus: Comparing the Elementatio theologica with Nicholas’ Attempts to Disarm ItJan Opsomer7 A Relativistic Approach to Proclus: Nicholas of Methone’s Critique of Elements of Theology § 67–74 (on Parts and Wholes)Arthur Oosthout8 Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early ByzantinesJonathan Greig9 The Motion of the Fertile One in Nicholas of Methone and Earlier SourcesJoshua M. Robinson10 Ontological Foundations and Methodological Applications of Analogy in Nicholas of Methone: An Example of RealismChristos Terezis and Lydia Petridou11 12th-Century Philosophers and the Filioque: The Case of Nicholas of Methone’s Corpus on the Procession of the Holy SpiritAlessandra Bucossi12 Reconsidering Nicholas of Methone’s Corpus on the Procession of the Holy SpiritCarmelo Nicolò BenvenutoPart 3 Nicholas of Methone’s Reception and Legacy13 The Discussion on Participation from Nicholas of Methone to Palamas and His OpponentsThe Scholia on Proclus’ Elementatio Theologica in Marcianus gr. 512Carlos Steel14 Proclus (and Nicholas of Methone) in the Hesychast ControversyBörje Bydén15 Marsilio Ficino and Nicholas of Methone on Platonic TheologyStephen GershIndex