Church & learning in the Byzantine Empire, 867-1185 - Hussey, J. M. (New York : Russell & Russell, 1963)
Learning under the Macedonians in the ninth and tenth centuries -- The background of the eleventh-century revival of learning -- The reopening of the University of Constantinople in 1045 -- Michael Psellus as philosopher -- John Italus and the other Comnenian heretics -- The scholars of the Comnenian period -- Ecclesiastical organization -- The patriarchs (867-1185) -- The place of monasticism in the Byzantine polity -- The Byzantine monastery -- An eleventh-century mystic, Symeon the Young.
Keywords: Orthodox Eastern Church History.Orthodox Eastern Church.Learning and scholarship Byzantine Empire