Introduction

Peter Adamson: In the Latin West, the line between medieval and Renaissance philosophy is as fuzzy as a kitten emerging from a tumbled dryer. At the tail end though, we can even name a specific day when the curtain fell on Byzantine philosophy May 29th, 1453,. The Ottomans breached the walls of Constantinople and finally ended the Roman Empire. But their arrival did not make it wholly impossible for Greek speakers to engage in scholarship. Think not of Pliton, who died just about the time that Byzantine ended, but of his enemy Scallarius.