ABSTRACT
Georgios Gennadios Scholarios (c.1400-1472) is well known among Byzantine historians for the critical role that he played in the last decades of Byzantium, most importantly as a member of the delegation of the Eastern Church to the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1437-1439, and later as the first ecumenical patriarch under the Ottomans (appointed by Mehmet II on 6 January 1454 as Gennadios II).1 Students of Byzantine philosophy on the other hand know Scholarios as a committed and prolific philosopher of a strong Aristotelian bent. Scholarios’s commitment to Aristotelianism, which manifests itself in his numerous exegetical works of Aristotle, in his fervent defence of Aristotle against Plethon’s criticisms,2 and in his explicit praise of Aristotle,3 is of a kind that dovetails with his overall intellectual profile.
