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Stephanites and Ichnelates, named after the two jackals who are the protagonists of the first, main fable of the book, is a work of Indian origin, successively translated into Middle Persian in the sixth century, Arabic in the eighth century, and then Greek and other European medieval languages. It was a very popular story, which enjoyed a wide international reception. The first Byzantine translation from the Arabic was made in the eleventh century by Symeon Seth and dedicated to the

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

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

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,

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