“Perhaps you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it”: Orthodoxy vs Philosophy: Edgar Wind, Giordano Bruno and Michael Psellos

Giulia Maria Paoletti
University of Oxford
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7388-9785

Volume 4, April 2023

Abstract
This paper shall focus on the long-debated relationship between philosophy and orthodoxy in the
Medieval world, by discussing two of the most important figures in the history of philosophy, from
the Middle Ages to the XVI-XVII century, that is to say Michael Psellos and Giordano Bruno. I will
draw attention to some similarities between the two and I will be doing so using a recently
published letter by Wind to Yates, in which the two debate on the figure of Giordano Bruno.

Keywords
Byzantine; Michael Psellos; Giordano Bruno; Byzantine Philosophy; Renaissance

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