RENAŞTEREA ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTULUI BIZANTIN ÎN TIMPUL DINASTIEI MACEDONENE (867-1028)
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE BYZANTINE EDUCATION IN THE MACEDONIAN DYNASTY (867-1028)

Summary/Abstract: One can say that Byzantine culture in the Macedonian epoch evolved under the influence of the measures of reorganisation of higher education of Caesar Bardas (863), who constituted the starting point of what was subsequently named the first Byzantine humanism. The new cultural movement was also connected to the personality of patriarch Photius in the IXth century, to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetus in the Xth century and to Michael Psellos, in the XIth century. Under the influence of these great personalities, the period witnessed the most prominent manifestations of the features which were specific to the Byzantine culture, expressed in the development of a more intimate relation between the profane and the theological elements or in the reconciliation of the ancient pagan wisdom to the new ideas of Christianity, as well as in the development of the general and encyclopedic knowledge. During this period, the University in Constantinople was again a centre of culture and education around which the most important cultural forces of the Empire gathered.

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