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Introduction Part I Chapter 1 Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and His Intellectual Circle The Philosopher King The Intellectual Circle at the Imperial Court prior to 1402 (Phase I) The Intellectual Circle at the Imperial Court after 1402 (Phase II) Chapter 2 The Schools in Constantinople The School at the Xenon of the Kral The “Patriarchal School” of Hagia Sophia The School at the Monastery of St. John of Stoudios The School at the Monastery of St. George of Mangana Private Schools Chapter 3 The Arrival of the Italian Humanists Manuel Chrysoloras and the First Contact The Arrival of the Italian Humanists in Constantinople Chapter 4 The “Patriarchal School” The Situation before the Fifteenth Century The “Patriarchal School” during Manuel II Palaiologos’s Reign (1391–1425) The Period before the Fall of 1453 The Reinstitution of the Patriarchal School in Ottoman Constantinople: The Library and the Scriptorium of Sultan Mehmed II Part II Chapter 5 The Teaching of Trivium and Quadrivium Grammar Poetry Rhetoric Philosophy Quadrivium Algebra Geometry Music/Harmony Astronomy Chapter 6 The Libraries and Manuscript Collections The Imperial Library The Patriarchal Library Monastic Libraries Private Collections Conclusions Bibliography