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 Rule of Saint Benedict

Benedict of Nursia

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimension... 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

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

Jewel of the Soul

Honorius Augustodunensis

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy. Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the ... Lees meer

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios

Robert H. Jordan, Rosemary Morris

• 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

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

Poetic Works

Bernardus Silvestris

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 38
• Bernardus Silvestris exemplifies the scholastic culture of his time. Having studied with pioneers in philosophy and science, he became a renowned teac... 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

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

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

The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian

Niketas Stethatos

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 20
• Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church an... 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 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

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

On Plato's Timaeus

Calcidius

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 41
• Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access to Plato's corpus not dispersed in fragments. In ... 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

Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall

Ekkehard IV

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 68
• The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV's Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall , part of the chronicles of the famous Swiss abbey, is a treasure trove o... Lees meer

Allegories of the Odyssey

John Tzetzes

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 56
• Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics--even the ancient Gre... Lees meer

On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua

Maximos the Confessor

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library | nr. 29
• Maximos the Confessor (580-662) occupies a unique position in the history of Byzantine philosophy, theology, and spirituality. His profound spiritual ... Lees meer

The Vulgate Bible

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Volume III in this six-volume translation of the Vulgate Bible begins with Job’s argument with God and continues with the Psalms and the Canticle of C... Lees meer