SCIENCES AND THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE 5th TO THE 9th CENTURY
SCIENCES AND THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE 5th TO THE 9th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: One of the great cultural achievements of Byzantium in its assertion period during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II was the establishment of the first Byzantine University in year 425, in historical-political moments when the New Rome on the Bosphorus, Constantinople, became a strong cultural meeting point for professors, rhetors and phylosophers. In spite of the apparent late dating of this university institution, one must not overlook the fact that, apart from the pagan university in Athens, there were also in the Byzantine environment, from the early ages, high-level teaching schools, some dating back to the time of Constantin and his followers

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