Sears Jayne, Plato in Medieval England: Pagan, Scientist, Alchemist, Theologian, ed. Christopher Moore. Disputatio, 37. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2023, 400 pp., 16 b/w figures and 47 textual tables.

Professor Sears Jayne (1920–2015) left quite a legacy in the way of manuscript files related to his longtime study of Platonic texts and commentaries. When he retired in the early 1980s, after three decades of teaching English Renaissance Drama at universities from Berkeley to Brown, his retirement project seemed to be realized with the publication of Plato in Renaissance England (1995). This was already a gift to medievalists, for he took the Renaissance in English studies of Plato to begin in 1423 with the arrival of Greek manuscripts prepared in Florence by students of the Byzantine monk Manuel Chrysoloras (ca. 1350–1415).