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Manuel (Emmanuel) from Corinth was a post-Byzantine theologian, a Grand Orator of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a hymnographer of the Orthodox Church (c. 1460–c. 1530/1531), and the Director of the Patriarchal Academy in Constantinople. In addition to his hymnographical and rhetorical work and his teaching activity, Manuel pursued two-pronged theological project: (a) to refute what he considered as Plethon’s Platonism and Pagan polytheism and to show the alleged impiety of two major late Byzantine thinkers (Plethon and Bessarion) and (b) to point out the several points of divergence of the Latin Church from the Orthodox faith and to argue for the purity of the latter, by continuing the doctrinal tradition of Gregory Palamas and Hesychasm. In the long Byzantine controversy between Platonists and Aristotelians, Manuel took the part of Scholarios (Gennadios II), and thanks to his institutional role, he reaffirmed the domination of Aristotelianism during the first centuries of post-Byzantine and Modern Greek intellectual life.
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Zografidis, G. (2019). Korinthios, Manuel. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_141-1
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