Chance to win a free DOML tote bag
Ten years after the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML) published its first book, we’re going stronger than ever! With more than sixty volumes now in the series, we are proud to be bringing Byzantine and medieval literature, history, and written culture to everyone. And now we’d like you to be able to take the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library on the go! To celebrate our ten year anniversary, we are holding a prize drawing to give away free canvas tote bags
Review: Appendix Ovidiana
In this excellent and well-crafted volume, Hexter, Pfuntner and Haynes have performed a great service for all scholars interested in the later tradition of Ovid. The Appendix Ovidiana brings together for the first time 34 Latin poems written from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages whose authorship is credited to Ovid in the manuscript tradition but not by modern editors. The remarkable range of genre and style displayed in the collection sets a very high bar for our translators, but they
Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival
As part of the online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library is offering a 20% discount on all Byzantine Greek volumes throughout the month of February 2021. Our bilingual volumes, published by Harvard University Press, make Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Old English literature accessible to scholars and to general readers. To take advantage of the discounted price: Everyone located in North and South America can claim the discount by ordering with this form. Free shipping in the U.S. and Canada; elsewhere,
Review: Apocalpyse, by pseudo-Methodius; An Alexandrian World Chronicle
This volume in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series presents two historical works: an Apocalypse, long wrongly attributed to Saint Methodius of Olympus and originally written in Syriac, and the Excerpta Latina Barbari, also of (different) unknown authorship, here presented as An Alexandrian World Chronicle, originally written in Greek but here presented in the Latin translation. Apocalypse is a fairly short work, a chronicle from biblical beginnings—Adam and Eve leaving paradise—through then-modern history and a promise of what is to come (yes, the apocalypse). It’s
Holiday Shopping Discount: 30% Off
From now through December 31, 2020, all DOML volumes are 30% off on the Harvard University Press website when you enter promotion code HOLIDAY20 at checkout. This includes our new Fall 2020 volumes, as well as our entire catalogue of medieval facing-page translations. Homilies, by Sophronios of Jerusalem, is edited and translated by John M. Duffy. Sophronios, born in Damascus around 560, was a highly educated monk and prolific writer who spent much of his life traveling in the Eastern
Review: Tria sunt
Martin Camargo’s edition and translation of the Tria sunt (a late fourteenth-century rhetorical treatise written in Latin) will be a staple for specialists in medieval rhetoric as well as for those early in their study. The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series as a whole is excellent, and this volume is no exception. A functional edition and translation would have sufficed, since no full edition as yet existed, but what impressed me most about the volume is its balance: the textual apparatus is
