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. Looking for a medieval stocking stuffer? Or a literary treat to ring in the New Year? From our latest translations to old favorites, everything is discounted in Medieval Latin, Old English, and Byzantine Greek. At only $24.50 each, these are our lowest prices all year. Browse all our volumes and use the coupon code HOLIDAY21 at checkout to claim
Review: Carmina Burana
The songs known as the Carmina Burana constitute the largest and most famous surviving collection of medieval Latin lyric. These two lovely volumes in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML) series present for the first time the whole contents of the manuscript in Latin with English facing-page translation. They are edited and translated by classicist David Traill, who brings to this ambitious project deep knowledge of medieval Latin poetry and the Carmina Burana manuscript. The two volumes of Traill’s edition
Review: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
There’s a certain state of mind I call crossword brain: It’s both intuitive and counterintuitive, knowing when to turn away from the seemingly obvious solution, but also knowing when to trust your instincts and go with the answer that feels good. Yet as The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition, a comprehensive new collection beautifully edited by the Oxford professor Andy Orchard, demonstrates, everything you need to know about crosswords you can learn from Anglo-Saxon riddles: Riddles are the ür-crossword puzzles. Riddles
Review: Old English Lives of Saints, by Ælfric
These volumes have been long needed. They contain one of the major works of the single most prolific Old English author, Ælfric of Eynsham, yet have not been edited in more than a century. They fit with Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library’s mission of making new, carefully edited and beautifully presented editions and translations of medieval texts available to specialists and general readers alike. Since 2010, this series has established itself as the place to publish accessible translations with critical editions
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library celebrates virtual ISSEME 2021
In 2021, the biennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England is being held virtually, from four locations around the globe: the University of Winchester in the UK; Concordia University in Montréal, Canada; Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia; and Leiden University in the Netherlands. In honor of the conference, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library is excited to offer participants a 20% discount on all Old English and medieval Latin volumes. The discount will last through
Review: Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece
This volume compiles seven hagiographies of less-well known male saints in Greece from the ninth and the tenth centuries CE, and prints the Greek texts with facing English translations. This work falls under the overall publishing purpose of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library which aims to offer “the classics of the medieval canon as well as lesser-known gems of literary and cultural value to a global audience through accessible modern translations based on the latest research by leading scholars in the field.” The
