201. Stephen Gersh on Medieval Platonism
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6 December 2014
Stephen Gersh (who was Peter's doctoral advisor!) joins him to discuss the sources and influence of Platonism in the Middle Ages.
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Further Reading
• S. Gersh, From Iamblichus to Eriugena (Leiden: 1978).
• S. Gersh, Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: the Latin Tradition, 2 vols (Notre Dame: 1986).
• S. Gersh, Concord in Discourse: Harmonics and Semiotics in Late Classical and Early Medieval Platonism (Berlin: 1996).
• S. Gersh and M.J.F.M. Hoenen (eds), The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages: a Doxographic Approach (Berlin: 2002).
• S. Gersh, Reading Plato, Tracing Plato: From Ancient Commentary to Medieval Reception (Aldershot: 2005).
• S. Gersh (ed.), Interpreting Proclus: From the Antiquity to the Renaissance (Cambridge: 2014).
Episodes 196 - 224: Early Medieval
Comments
Good overview over various Platonisms at various times
Besides the various streams of Platonism in the first half of the Middle Ages I found it very interesting that Platonism lived on while Aristotelianism had its heyday - and amazing that the Byzantines made nothing of Plato, although they had Plato in full and in original. How crazy is this?
Excellent podcast!
Thank you for an excellent podcast! I certainly learned a lot (including that I've been mispronouncing "Proclus"!)
Did I understand Prof. Gersh as saying that Theodore of Mopsuestia was an important source by which Platonism reached the Middle Ages? If so, I wish I could learn more about that.
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