Old Testament Narratives

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they ... Lees meer

The Menologion of Basil II

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• A fascinating window into daily Byzantine religious observances The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantiu... Lees meer

The Old English Chronicle

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• A thousand years of English history, encapsulating invasions, the rise and fall of kings, and religious events Among the vernacular historical writing... Lees meer

The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The complete works of the first known woman playwright Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the f... Lees meer

The Vulgate Bible: Volume II The Historical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• This second volume of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible presents the Historical Books of the Bible, which tell of Joshua’s lead... Lees meer

Two Works on Trebizond

Michael Panaretos, Bessarion

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 52
• In 1204, brothers Alexios and David Komnenos became the unwitting founders of the Empire of Trebizond, a successor state to the Byzantine Empire that ... Lees meer

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Theodore (759-826), abbot of the influential Constantinopolitan monastery of Stoudios, is celebrated as a saint by the Orthodox Church for his stalwar... Lees meer

Old English Lives of Saints

Aelfric

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 58
• Old English Lives of Saints , a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array o... Lees meer

Biblical and Pastoral Poetry

Alcimus Avitus

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne and a vigorous defender of Christian orthodoxy, was born into the senatorial aristocracy in southern Gaul in... Lees meer

Carmina Burana

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 49
• Carmina Burana , literally "Songs from Beuern," is named after the village where the manuscript was found. The songbook consists of nearly 250 poems, ... Lees meer

Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean is a treasure trove of stories and lessons on how to conduct oneself and succeed in life, sometimes through... Lees meer

Tria Sunt

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 53
• The Tria sunt, named for its opening words, was a widely used and highly ambitious book composed in England in the late fourteenth century during a re... Lees meer

The Old English Pastoral Care

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The Book of Pastoral Rule , or Liber regulae pastoralis , by Pope Gregory the Great--the pontiff responsible for the conversion of the English to Chri... Lees meer

Apocalypse. an Alexandrian World Chronicle

Pseudo-Methodius

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 14
• This volume contains two texts that crossed the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity. The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was one of the first works compose... Lees meer

Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 27
• Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints . Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrativ... Lees meer

Literary Works

Alan of Lille

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 22
• A product of the cathedral schools that played a foundational role in the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Alan of Lille was renowned for the va... Lees meer

Life of the Virgin Mary

John Geometres

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The first complete, modern translation of one of the most important Byzantine works of Marian doctrine and devotion. John Geometres (ca. 935-ca. 1000)... Lees meer

Writings on Body and Soul

Aelred Of Rievaulx

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Aelred (1110-1167), abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, has always been a controversial figure. He was beloved by his monks and widely admired, but ... Lees meer

Old English Lives of Saints

Aelfric

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 59
• Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of... Lees meer

Carmina Burana

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 48
• Carmina Burana , literally "Songs from Beuern," is named after the village where the manuscript was found. The songbook consists of nearly 250 poems, ... Lees meer

The Arundel Lyrics. The Poems of Hugh Primas

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century... Lees meer

The Old English History of the World

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 44
• The Old English History of the World is a translation and adaptation of the Latin history known as the Seven Books of History against the Pagans , wri... Lees meer

The Byzantine Sinbad

Michael Andreopoulos

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 67
• The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher and The Fables of Syntipas , both translated from Syriac in the late eleventh centu... Lees meer

The Vulgate Bible

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 21
• This volume completes the six-volume Vulgate Bible . Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vu... Lees meer