Han Lamers, Ph.D. (2013), Leiden University, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Berlin Centre for the History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University (Berlin) and Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the University of Leuven.

• Preface Acknowledgements Conventions and Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction 1 A Hellenic Alternative: The Emergence of Greekness in Byzantium 2 Making the Best of It: The Negotiation of Greekness in Italy 3 Freedom and Community: The Secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion 4 The Greek Tradition as a Combat Zone: Hellenocentrism in the Work of George Trapezuntius of Crete 5 Greekness as Cultural Common Ground: Ianus Lascaris’ Attempt at Greco-Latin Ecumenism 6 Greekness Without Greece: Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo 7 The Territorialisation of Hellenism: Giovanni Gemisto’s Vision of the Greek World Conclusion: Greece Reinvented Appendix 1 Gemisto’s Gallery of Greek Heroes Appendix 2 Gemisto’s Imaginary Greece Bibliography Index