Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 72 Hardcover by Elena Boeck

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2019-03-12)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780884024378
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Published annually, the journal Dumbarton Oaks Papers was founded in 1941 for the publication of articles relating to Byzantine civilization.

In this issue: Audrey Becker, “Verbal and Nonverbal Diplomatic Communication at the Imperial Court of Constantinople (fifth–sixth Centuries)”; Alexandra Wassiliou-Seibt and Andreas Gkoutzioukostas, “The Origin and the Members of the Kamytzes Family: A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography”; Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, “‘Psalms Useful for Everything’: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Manuals for the Amuletic Use of the Psalter”; Raymond Van Dam, “Eastern Aristocracies and Imperial Courts: Constantine’s Half-Brother, Licinius’s Prefect, and Egyptian Grain”; Daniel Caner, “Not a Hospital but a Leprosarium: Basil’s Basilias and an Early Byzantine Concept of the Deserving Poor”; Paul Botley, “Greek Literature in Exile: The Books of Andronicus Callistus, 1475–1476”; Aude Busine, “The Dux and the Nun: Hagiography and the Cult of Artemios and Febronia in Constantinople”; Benjamin Garstad, “Dionysiac and Christian Elements in the Lysos Episode in the Greek Alexander Romance (β rec.).”

About the Author

Elena Boeck is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University.

Joel Kalvesmaki was Managing Editor in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.