Institutional Settings: The Court, Schools, Church, and Monasteries

The Relationships between Scientific and Theological Discourses at the Crossroads between Medieval and Early Modern Times and the Historiography of Science

“…Some fifty years later, the Persian Tables, likely brought to Constantinople by Chioniades, had spread among scholars and astrologers. Quite a few authors wrote commentaries on the Persian Tables, but the one most deserving of attention is that by Theodorus Meliteniotes, the influential churchman and proponent of hesychasm and the doctrine of Palamas, who was active around the middle of the fourteenth century in Constantinople and was rector of the Patriarchal School, the official educational establishment of Orthodoxy (Harris 2017). Meliteniotes composed the Three Books of Astronomy immediately after the Council of 1351 (Leurquin 1990;1993).…”