[B-Greek] OT: The Revival of Learning

Stephen Baldwin stbaldwi at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 10 23:10:08 EST 2009


Ladies and Gentlemen:
I'm fishing for sources on the Revival of Learning of the Renaissance as it pertains to Greek studies. Also, discussions as to how much the West lost touch with Greek [and Hebrew] studies in the first place. The fall of Constantinople [1453] allegedly precipitated the revival of Greek in the West but I have also read that this can be exaggerated -- that Greek studies never entirely died out, esp. in Scicily.
But I was curious reading David Daniell's biography of Tyndale that Oxford did not run a Greek course until 1462, and that for real proficiency, a trip to Italy was necessary. (doubtless taught by one Randallium Buthius? Just kidding ;-)]

This is off-topic since it does not pertain to Greek text per se [sorry -- don't know the Greek for per se ;-)]. My apologies to the authorities -- I didn't know where else I might go.

OFFLIST REPLIES ONLY PLEASE.

Many thanks, and Juletide greetings to you all.

Steve Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com

 		 	   		  
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