Holiday Sale: 30% Off All Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Volumes
Harvard University Press is celebrating the holidays by offering 30% off sitewide on all titles, including Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library volumes. Why not treat yourself this winter? From our latest translations to old favorites, everything is discounted in Medieval Latin, Old English, and Byzantine Greek, through the end of the year. Browse all our volumes and use the coupon code HOL22 at checkout to claim 30% off! New volumes for winter 2022, available for preorder now: Miracles of the Virgin;
Review: The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios
Theodore the Stoudite was one of the most influential Byzantine authors and ecclesiastical authorities, playing a prominent role in the defense of icons during the second period of the iconoclastic controversy (early ninth century). The present publication from the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series translates for the first time into English three medieval Greek texts—the Life of Theodore of Stoudios by Michael the Monk, the Encyclical Letter of Naukratios, and the Translation and Burial of the Remains of Theodore of Stoudios and Joseph of
Review: Parisiana poetria, by John of Garland
Traugott Lawler’s edition and translation of the thirteenth-century Parisiana poetria has been a valuable resource for scholars of medieval rhetoric and poetics since it was first published by Yale University Press over forty years ago. Now John of Garland’s uniquely comprehensive art of poetry and prose has been made available again, in an attractively produced and reasonably priced volume from the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML) series. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new version of Lawler’s already excellent edition and
Review: The Old English Pastoral Care
The Old English Pastoral Care, edited by R. D. Fulk, is a new edition and facing-page translation of the Old English version of Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis. The original Latin text is, in Fulk’s words, “an account of the qualities required of a bishop and of the best methods to be employed in dealing with the diverse sorts of people under a bishop’s care.” The Old English version, produced in the late ninth century, was distributed with a prefatory letter,
Review: Appendix Ovidiana
Die Reihe “Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library” veröffentlicht wichtige mittelalterliche Texte aus dem mittellateinischen, byzantinischen und altenglischen Bereich in Ausgaben der Originaltexte mit parallelen englischen Übersetzungen. Der Ende 2020 herausgegebene vorliegende 62. Band der Reihe stellt die Appendix Ovidiana dar. Wie die Herausgeber [Ralph Hexter, Laura Pfuntner, and Justin Haynes] in ihrer Einführung bemerken, sind sie sich dessen bewusst, dass es nie eine abgegrenzte Sammlung Appendix Ovidiana gegeben hat, wie es wohl seit der Spätantike eine mehr oder weniger stabile Sammlung
Kalamazoo 2022: 20% Conference Discount on All DOML Volumes
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library is proud to participate in the virtual exhibits hall of the 57th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted by Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Everyone is invited to browse our virtual conference booth: no conference registration required! Use our online order form to get a 20% discount and free shipping in the US and Canada on all DOML volumes, including new titles: Biblical and Pastoral Poetry, by Alcimus Avitus, ed. and trans. Michael Roberts Animal Fables of
