The reception of Aristotle in Byzantium: the first critical edition of George Pachymeres' Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

拜占庭对亚里士多德的接受：乔治·帕奇米尔斯对亚里士多德尼各马可伦理学的评论的第一批评论版

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P008887/1
负责人：
Sofia Xenofontos
金额：
$ 25.46万
依托单位：
University of Glasgow
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP008887%2F1
关键词：
reception Aristotle Byzantium first critical

项目摘要

This project seeks to compose the first-ever critical edition of the influential Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by the distinguished Byzantine scholar George Pachymeres (1242-ca. 1310). The edition will be accompanied by an English translation, extensive introduction and indexes at the end, and will be published in an open-access environment, freely available to both specialist and lay audience for use in many contexts. The proposed edition has been commissioned for publication by De Gruyter (series: 'Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina' = CAGB) and is part of a comprehensive editorial venture, which will make available a large number of unedited Byzantine commentaries on Aristotle's works, eventually contributing to the reception of the Aristotelian tradition in Byzantium and the development of Aristotelian studies more broadly. The project is of significant academic impact. A reliable text for Pachymeres' Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics is imperative for a wider reassessment of late Byzantine philosophy, as it will emphasise the original contributions made by scholars in this period. At the same time it will establish and help to consolidate the as yet unknown importance of the Late Byzantine period (1261-1453) as an age of considerable philosophical engagement with Aristotle. The edition and translation will throw light on contemporary educational practices by exploring the extent to which Aristotelian commentaries acted as didactic manuals. Relatedly, it will raise the need for an all-encompassing study of late Byzantine education, a topic that is still little explored and poorly understood. Furthermore, it will stimulate further research on the connections between Byzantine philosophy and Western theology and philosophy, and make us reflect on the transfer of knowledge with Arabic philosophy too. The project will help to refine our understanding of Aristotle's reception in Christian religious thought, and thus will tackle the heated question of how pagan (i.e. ancient Greek) philosophy was more or less easily incorporated into the Christian scholarly community of the later centuries of Byzantium. Last but not least, this study is intended to act as a seed project for the investigation of the undervalued topic of the function of Late Byzantine ethics both as a theoretical discipline and as a practical source of advice on how the good life was expected to be led in Constantinople and other significant parts of the Byzantine Empire.Apart from the edition and translation, this project will publish an edited volume arising from an international conference organised by the research team. The volume will be the first comprehensive study of Byzantine ethical works produced from the 10th to the 15th century and will bear the title 'Ethical works in Byzantium: continuities and transformations'. The project's findings will be communicated to the interested public via its interactive online portal, through which users may contribute their insights into the editorial process and especially some fascinating diagrams featuring in the margins of the manuscripts. Another form of public engagement will be a showcase of sample Greek manuscripts from the rich repositories of the Special Collections of the University of Glasgow Library, which will be targeted at pupils from local schools. This is envisaged as an educational introduction to medieval manuscript culture. The project illuminates a momentous period of Byzantine literary culture. More generally, it will therefore help to revisit the issue of how Byzantine studies are seen in the wider fields of intellectual and cultural history today.

该项目旨在为杰出的拜占庭学者乔治·帕奇梅雷斯（George Pachymeres，1242 年 - 约 1310 年）撰写颇具影响力的《亚里士多德尼各马可伦理学评论》的第一个批评版。该版本将附有英文翻译、详尽的介绍和索引，并将在开放获取环境中出版，免费提供给专家和非专业观众在多种情况下使用。拟议的版本已由 De Gruyter 委托出版（系列：“亚里士多德评论” = CAGB），并且是综合编辑项目的一部分，该项目最终将提供大量未经编辑的对亚里士多德作品的拜占庭评论有助于亚里士多德传统在拜占庭的接受以及亚里士多德研究的更广泛发展。该项目具有重大学术影响。对于对晚期拜占庭哲学进行更广泛的重新评估，帕奇米尔斯《尼科马可伦理学评论》的可靠文本至关重要，因为它将强调这一时期学者们做出的原创贡献。同时，它将确立并帮助巩固拜占庭晚期（1261-1453）作为与亚里士多德进行大量哲学接触的时代的未知重要性。该版本和翻译将通过探索亚里士多德评论作为教学手册的程度来阐明当代教育实践。与此相关的是，它将提出对拜占庭晚期教育进行全面研究的需要，这个话题仍然很少被探索和了解。此外，它将激发对拜占庭哲学与西方神学和哲学之间联系的进一步研究，也使我们反思知识与阿拉伯哲学的转移。该项目将有助于完善我们对亚里士多德对基督教宗教思想的接受的理解，从而解决异教（即古希腊）哲学如何或多或少容易融入拜占庭后来几个世纪的基督教学术界的热门问题。最后但并非最不重要的一点是，这项研究旨在作为一个种子项目，调查晚期拜占庭伦理学的功能这一被低估的话题，它既作为一门理论学科，又作为关于如何期望美好生活的实用建议来源。在君士坦丁堡和拜占庭帝国的其他重要地区领导。除了编辑和翻译之外，该项目还将出版研究团队组织的一次国际会议的编辑卷。该书将是第一部对 10 世纪至 15 世纪拜占庭伦理著作的全面研究，标题为“拜占庭伦理著作：连续性与转变”。该项目的研究结果将通过其交互式在线门户传达给感兴趣的公众，用户可以通过该门户贡献他们对编辑过程的见解，特别是手稿边缘的一些引人入胜的图表。另一种形式的公众参与将是展示格拉斯哥大学图书馆丰富的特藏库中的希腊手稿样本，该项目将针对当地学校的学生。这被设想为对中世纪手稿文化的教育介绍。该项目阐明了拜占庭文学文化的一个重要时期。更一般地说，这将有助于重新审视当今更广泛的思想和文化史领域如何看待拜占庭研究的问题。