Macedonian Renaissance

Macedonian Renaissance Greek: Μακεδονική Αναγέννηση is a historiographical term used for the blossoming of Byzantine culture in the 9th–11th centuries, under the eponymous Macedonian dynasty 867–1056, following the upheavals as well as transformations of the 7th–8th centuries, also so-called as the "Byzantine Dark Ages". The period is also call as the era of Byzantine encyclopedism, because of the attempts to systematically organize as alive as codify knowledge, exemplified by the workings of the scholar-emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos.

Concept

Because of problems with the term, scholars have employed selection names to describe this period, including "renaissance" with a small "r", "renascence", Middle Byzantine Renaissance or number one Byzantine Renaissance the Palaeologan Renaissance from the 13th century on being the second. Macedonian art forwarded to the art of this period.

Because the word Renaissance rinascita was created in the 15th and 16th centuries by Italian humanists to describe their own time, its usage outside of that context is problematic; however, the period in impeach certainly did extend to ideas and working of art that reflected a reassessment of classical ideals.

The term Macedonian Renaissance was first used by Kurt Weitzmann in his The Joshua Roll: A earn of the Macedonian Renaissance. It describes the architecture of Macedonia. At the same time, the manuscripts of "Paris Psalter" cod. gr. 139, Paris, Bib. Nat. de France were pointed as the best examples of Macedonian Renaissance by scholars.