Syros, Vasileios

Academy of Finland Senior Fellow

Finnish Centre of Political Thought & Conceptual Change

E–mail: vasileios.syros@helsinki.fi

Website: https://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/yfi/henkilokunta/val_/syrosvasileios

 

Publications

Monographs

1) Marsilus of Padua at the Intersection of Ancient and Medieval Traditions of Political Thought (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Pp. 315 [ISBN: 978-1-4426-4144-0]

2)    Die Rezeption der aristotelischen politischen Philosophie bei Marsilius von Padua: Eine Untersuchung zur ersten Diktion des Defensor pacis (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; 134) (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2007 [2008]). Pp x + 366 [ISBN: 978-9-00416-874-9]

Reviewed in:

  1. Lychnos: Yearbook of the Swedish History of Science Society (2012).
  2. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62:4 (2011): 819.
  3. Medieval Encounters 17:3 (2011): 400–402.
  4. The European Legacy 16:4 (2011): 564–565.
  5. Arabica 58 (2011): 350–351.
  6. Historische Zeitschrift 292:1 (2011): 182–183.
  7. Hobbes Studies 24 (2011): 201–204. 
  8. Enrahonar: Quaderns de filosofia 46 (2011): 205–206.
  9. Byzantina Symmeikta 21 (2011): 397–99.
  10. Mediaevistik 24 (2011): 707–711.
  11. Bibliographie annuelle du moyen âge tardif 21 (2011): 399–400.
  12. Speculum 85 (2010): 469–470.
  13. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (Kanonistische Abteilung) 96 (2010): 668–676.
  14. Medievalia et Humanistica 36 (2010): 182–185.
  15. Patristica et Mediaevalia 31 (2010): 127–28.
  16. Bibliographie annuelle du moyen âge tardif 20 (2010): 443.
  17. Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 57 (2010): 498–501.
  18. Francia 4 (2010) www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/francia/francia-recensio/2010-4/MA/schwellenbach_lejbowicz
  19. Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik = Annual  Review of Laws and Ethics 18 (2010): 615–618.
  20. Anales del Seminario de la Filosofía (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 27 (2010): 331–334.
  21. Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought (UK) 27 (2010): 178–180.
  22. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 118 (2010): 282–283.
  23. Politiikka 52 (2010): 347–349.
  24. The Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3631 (under Izbicki)
  25. Il Pensiero Politico 42 (2009): 252–254.
  26. Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 89 (2009): 552–554.
  27. Medioevo Latino 30 (2009): 344–345.
  28. Bibliographie annuelle du moyen âge tardif 19 (2009): 392–393, and 9 smaller entries.
  29. Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 16 (2009): 193–197.
  30. Pensamiento (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) 65 (2009): 558–563.
  31. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 71 (2009): 775–777.
  32. Journal of Oriental and African Studies 18 (2009): 344–345.
  33. Reference & Research Books News 24:1 (February 2009): 179.
  34. Roberto Lambertini, “Magis aristotelicus…’, Marsilio ed Aristotele a confronto in una stimolante monografia di Vasileios Syros,” Pensiero Politico Medievale 6 (2008): 109–115.

Edited Collections

Well Begun is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Sources (= Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies; 388/Medieval Confluences; 1) (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2011). Pp. xiii + 226 [ISBN: 978-0-86698-436-2]

Reviewed in:

1)    δια-ΛΟΓΟΣ 2 (2012).

 

Articles and Book Chapters

a)   Published

  1. “Galenic Medicine and Social Stability in Early Modern Florence and the Islamic Empires,” Journal of Early Modern History 17:2 (2013): 161–213.
  2. “An Early Modern South Asian Thinker on the Rise and Decline of Empires: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, the Mughals, and the Byzantines,” Journal of World History 23:4 (2012): 793–840.
  3. “Shadows in Heaven and Clouds on Earth: The Emergence of Social Life and Political Authority in the Early Modern Islamic Empires,” Viator 43:2 (2012): 377–406.
  4.  “Indian Emergencies: Baranī’s Fatāwā-i Jahāndārī, the Diseases of the Body Politic, and Machiavelli’s accidenti,” Philosophy East & West 62:4 (2012): 545–573.
  5. “Founders and Kings Versus Orators: Medieval and Early Modern Views on the Origins of Social Life,” Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 42:1 (2011): 383–408.
  6. “Did the Physician from Padua Meet the Rabbi from Cordoba? Marsilius of Padua and Moses Maimonides on the Political Utility of Religion,” Revue des Études Juives 170:1-2 (2011): 51–71.
  7. “Between Chimera and Charybdis: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Views on the Political Organization of the Italian City-States,” Journal of Early Modern History 14 (2010): 451–504.
  8. “Linguistic Contextualism and Medieval Political Thought: Quentin Skinner on Marsilius of Padua,” History of Political Thought 31:4 (2010): 691–708.
  9. “Forgotten Commentators Society: Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Garb,” in Well Begun is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Sources, ed. Vasileios Syros (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2011), 1–16.
  10. “Political Treatises,” in Trends in Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2010), 1997–2018.
  11. Art. “Marsilius of Padua,” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philiosophy between 500 and 1600, ed. Henrik Lagerlund (Dodrecht: Springer, 2010), 717–720.
  12. “Absalom’s Revolt and Value-Neutral Advice in Profayt Duran,” History of Political Thought 30:1 (2009): 60–74.
  13. “A Note on the Transmission of Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Medieval Persia and Early-Modern India. Was There Any Arabic or Persian Translation of the Politics?,” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 50 (2008): 303–9.
  14. “Ahitophel’s Advice and the ‘Reason of State’: Simone Luzzatto (1583–1663) on Absalom’s Revolt,” Lias: Sources and Documents Relating to the Early Modern History of Ideas 34 (2007): 45–57.
  15. “Marsilius of Padua on Princely Virtues and Aristotle’s Absolute Ruler,” Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur 13 (2007): 212–29.
    ** Reprinted in Yavanika: The Journal of the Indian Society for Greek and Roman Studies 12 (2009): 93–113.
  16. “The Principle of the Sovereignty of the Multitude in the Works of Marsilius of Padua, Peter of Auvergne and Some Other Aristotelian Commentators,” in The World of Marsilius of Padua, ed. Gerson Moreno-Riaño (= Disputatio; 5) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 227–48.
    Reviewed in:
    Anales del Seminario de la Filosofía (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 27 (2010): 331.

    1. Pensiero Politico Medievale 6 (2008): 27–28.
    2. Catholic Historical Review 94:2 (2008): 342.
    3. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 59:2 (2008): 327.
    4. The Medieval Review (2008) https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/4121 (under Jones)
    5. Pensamiento (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) 65 (2008): 560.
    6. Canadian Journal of History 42:3 (2007): 496–497.
    7. Church History and Religious Culture 87:3 (2007): 388.

    ** Translated into Bulgarian by Martin Ossikovski in Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur 15 (2009): 307–31.

  17. “Simone Luzzatto’s Image of the Ideal Prince and the Italian Tradition of Reason of State,” Redescriptions. Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History 9 (2005): 157–82.

 

b)   Accepted for Publication/Forthcoming/In Press 

1)    “Marsilius of Padua and Isaac Abravanel on Kingship: The Medieval Antecedents to Modern Republicanism Revisited,” Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 18 (2012) (in press).

2)  “Behind Every Great Reformer there is a “Machiavelli”: Al-Maghīlī, Machiavelli, and the Micro-Politics of an Early Modern African and an Italian City-State,” Philosophy East & West 65:4 (2015) (accepted for publication).

 

In progress

Monographs

The Protean Art of Politics: Early Modern Jewish Political Thought and Skepticism

Articles

“Lessons from History in Recessionary Interludes: Early Modern Jewish Ideas on State and the Succession of Empires.”

“Byzantine Theories of Imperial Decline,” in Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, ed. Anthony Kaldellis and Niketas Siniossoglou (Cambridge University Press; commissioned).

“The Idea of the Islamic State in Medieval Muslim Philosophy,” Storia del pensiero politico (= The Islamic State, ed. Massimo Campanini) (commissioned).

“Visions of World Rulership and Religion in Medieval India,” in Religion and Politics in Medieval India, ed. Raziuddin Aquil (= Studies in Medieval Indian History) (Manohar Books; commissioned).

“Private Property and Tyranny in Islamic and Byzantine Political Thought,” in Evil Lords: Theory and Representation of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance, ed. Nikos Panou and Hester Schadee (Oxford University Press; commissioned). 

Art. “Medieval Political Thought”; “Maimonides,” for Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought (Cambridge University Press; commissioned).

 

 



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