The Menologion of Basil II

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• Editor/a . Kuper, Charles
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2026

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be read during the morning office to commemorate the saint or feast of the day. Dedicated to the emperor Basil II (r. 976-1025), it is best known ...

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The Menologion of Basil II

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• Kuper, Charles
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2026

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be read during the morning office to commemorate the saint or feast of the day. Dedicated to the emperor Basil II (r. 976-1025), it is best known ...

The Old English Chronicle. Volume I: the A-Text to 1001

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

• Editor/a . VV. AA.
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2026

A thousand years of English history, encapsulating invasions, the rise and fall of kings, and religious events Among the vernacular historical writings of early medieval England, the Old English Chronicle holds a prominent place, providing not only a backbone of English history from the fifth ...

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The Old English Chronicle. Volume I: the A-Text to 1001

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• VV. AA.
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2026

A thousand years of English history, encapsulating invasions, the rise and fall of kings, and religious events Among the vernacular historical writings of early medieval England, the Old English Chronicle holds a prominent place, providing not only a backbone of English history from the fifth ...

The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

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• Hrotsvitha (ca. 935-ca. 975)
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2026

Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. While her plays are still frequently performed, her other works are not readily available in English. A desire to provide ...

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The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

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• Hrotsvitha (ca. 935-ca. 975)
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2026

Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. While her plays are still frequently performed, her other works are not readily available in English. A desire to provide ...

Politics, philosophy, and humor at the Byzantine court

eight works by Theodore II Laskaris

• A cargo de. Angelov, Dimiter
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

The thirteenth-century emperor Theodore II Laskaris, ruler of the Empire of Nicaea, is among those versatile authors of the Byzantine era who produced numerous little-known gems of literature and thought. He composed the sole theoretical work on friendship surviving from Byzantium, wrote philosophy with verve ...

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Politics, philosophy, and humor at the Byzantine court

eight works by Theodore II Laskaris

• Angelov, Dimiter
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

The thirteenth-century emperor Theodore II Laskaris, ruler of the Empire of Nicaea, is among those versatile authors of the Byzantine era who produced numerous little-known gems of literature and thought. He composed the sole theoretical work on friendship surviving from Byzantium, wrote philosophy with verve ...

Sacralizing violence in Byzantium

hymns, empire, and the narrowing of Christian identity

• Demacopoulos, George
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

Christians had always been concerned, since the faith's inception, about the relationship between violence and belief. In Byzantium, this tension was explored not only in abstract theological texts but in the songs people sang: hymns, a multivalent, fluid form of devotion that served as ...

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Sacralizing violence in Byzantium

hymns, empire, and the narrowing of Christian identity

• Demacopoulos, George
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

Christians had always been concerned, since the faith's inception, about the relationship between violence and belief. In Byzantium, this tension was explored not only in abstract theological texts but in the songs people sang: hymns, a multivalent, fluid form of devotion that served as ...

The Old English Catholic homilies : the first series

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• Aelfric, Abad de Eynsham
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

A contemporary edition and translation of one of the great monuments of Old English literary and religious culture. The homilies of the monk Ælfric, written in the last decade of the tenth century, offer some of the most important prose writing in Old English. They ...

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The Old English Catholic homilies : the first series

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• Aelfric, Abad de Eynsham
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

A contemporary edition and translation of one of the great monuments of Old English literary and religious culture. The homilies of the monk Ælfric, written in the last decade of the tenth century, offer some of the most important prose writing in Old English. They ...

The life of Saint Peter of Atroa

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• Sabas de Capadocia
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

An authoritative new Greek edition and English translation of the life of a notable Byzantine monastic leader. Saint Peter of Atroa (773-837 CE) was a Byzantine monastic leader, remembered primarily as cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah at Atroa, below the ...

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The life of Saint Peter of Atroa

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• Sabas de Capadocia
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

An authoritative new Greek edition and English translation of the life of a notable Byzantine monastic leader. Saint Peter of Atroa (773-837 CE) was a Byzantine monastic leader, remembered primarily as cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah at Atroa, below the ...

The labyrinth of fortune

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 88)

• Mena, Juan de (1411-1456)
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

A classic, Dantesque political epic from medieval Spain that inspired Cervantes and Góngora, in its first English translation. Why do the injustices of the past still afflict the present? With this question, Juan de Mena is transported to heaven by a vision in the Dantesque ...

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The labyrinth of fortune

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 88)

• Mena, Juan de (1411-1456)
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

A classic, Dantesque political epic from medieval Spain that inspired Cervantes and Góngora, in its first English translation. Why do the injustices of the past still afflict the present? With this question, Juan de Mena is transported to heaven by a vision in the Dantesque ...

The art of making verses

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 87)

• Gervasio de Melkley
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

An elegant medieval guide to verse composition and rhetoric, presented in a new authoritative edition and English translation. The Art of Making Verses, Ars versificatoria, was composed by the thirteenth-century English poet and teacher Gervase of Melkley, who studied under John de Hauville. He belongs ...

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The art of making verses

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 87)

• Gervasio de Melkley
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2025

An elegant medieval guide to verse composition and rhetoric, presented in a new authoritative edition and English translation. The Art of Making Verses, Ars versificatoria, was composed by the thirteenth-century English poet and teacher Gervase of Melkley, who studied under John de Hauville. He belongs ...

Songs About Women

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 83)

• Romano El Méloda
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

A collection of ancient Byzantine hymns featuring women as pivotal characters, now in a new translation. At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485-565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals ...

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Songs About Women

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• Romano El Méloda
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

A collection of ancient Byzantine hymns featuring women as pivotal characters, now in a new translation. At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485-565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals ...

Medical writings from early medieval England. Vol. 1 : the Old English Herbal, Lacnunga, and other texts

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 81)

• Editor/a . Niles, John D.
• Editor/a . D'Aronco, Maria A.
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years. Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts-unique local remedies and translations of late ...

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Medical writings from early medieval England. Vol. 1 : the Old English Herbal, Lacnunga, and other texts

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 81)

• Niles, John D.;
• D'Aronco, Maria A.
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years. Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts-unique local remedies and translations of late ...

Jewel of the Soul. Volume II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 80)

• Editor/a . Honorius Augustodunensis
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy.Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the Soul (the Gemma animae) gleams as one of the most attractive liturgical commentaries from the twelfth century. A lively and effective teacher ...

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Jewel of the Soul. Volume II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 80)

• Honorius Augustodunensis
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy.Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the Soul (the Gemma animae) gleams as one of the most attractive liturgical commentaries from the twelfth century. A lively and effective teacher ...

Jewel of the Soul. Volume I

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 79)

• Honorius Augustodunensis
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy. Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the Soul (the Gemma animae) gleams as one of the most attractive liturgical commentaries from the twelfth century. A lively and effective teacher ...

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Jewel of the Soul. Volume I

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 79)

• Honorius Augustodunensis
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first complete translation into a modern language of a major authority on the medieval Christian liturgy. Honorius Augustodunensis's Jewel of the Soul (the Gemma animae) gleams as one of the most attractive liturgical commentaries from the twelfth century. A lively and effective teacher ...

Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 78)

• Editor/a . Papaioannou, Stratis
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

A collection of medieval tales of Byzantine saints, including some rejected by the Church, translated into English for the first time. The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Ages-as related ...

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Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends

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• Papaioannou, Stratis
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

A collection of medieval tales of Byzantine saints, including some rejected by the Church, translated into English for the first time. The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Ages-as related ...

Life of the Virgin Mary

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 77)

• Juan Geómetra
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first complete, modern translation of one of the most important Byzantine works of Marian doctrine and devotion. John Geometres (ca. 935-ca. 1000) was one of the most highly esteemed poets and authors in Byzantium; yet his most important text, the Life of the Virgin ...

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Life of the Virgin Mary

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 77)

• Juan Geómetra
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

The first complete, modern translation of one of the most important Byzantine works of Marian doctrine and devotion. John Geometres (ca. 935-ca. 1000) was one of the most highly esteemed poets and authors in Byzantium; yet his most important text, the Life of the Virgin ...

The Moralized Ovid

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 82)

• Bersuire, Pierre
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid's stories, translated into English for the first time. Written in about 1340 in Avignon by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid-commonly referred to by its Latin ...

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The Moralized Ovid

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 82)

• Bersuire, Pierre
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2024

An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid's stories, translated into English for the first time. Written in about 1340 in Avignon by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid-commonly referred to by its Latin ...

Miracles of the Virgin; Tract on Abuses

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 75)

• Nigel de Longchamps
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2023

The first English translation of the earliest Latin poems about miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, composed in twelfth-century Canterbury by a Benedictine monk who inspired Chaucer. Nigel (ca. 1135-1198), a Benedictine monk at Christ Church in Canterbury, is best known for The Mirror of ...

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Miracles of the Virgin; Tract on Abuses

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 75)

• Nigel de Longchamps
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2023

The first English translation of the earliest Latin poems about miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, composed in twelfth-century Canterbury by a Benedictine monk who inspired Chaucer. Nigel (ca. 1135-1198), a Benedictine monk at Christ Church in Canterbury, is best known for The Mirror of ...

Augustine's Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 76)

• Editor/a . Lockett, Leslie
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2023

A new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old English vernacular adaptation translated into modern English for the first time in a hundred years. Around the turn of the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted ...

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Augustine's Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 76)

• Lockett, Leslie
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2023

A new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old English vernacular adaptation translated into modern English for the first time in a hundred years. Around the turn of the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted ...

Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean: the Eugenian Recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 73)

• Editor/a . Noble, Alison
• Editor/a . Alexakis, Alexander
• Editor/a . Greenfield, Richard P.H.
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2022

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 cleverness rather than virtue. They feature human and many animal protagonists, including the two jackals Stephanites and Ichnelates, after whom ...

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Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean: the Eugenian Recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 73)

• Noble, Alison;
• Alexakis, Alexander;
• Greenfield, Richard P.H.
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2022

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 cleverness rather than virtue. They feature human and many animal protagonists, including the two jackals Stephanites and Ichnelates, after whom ...

Writings on Body and Soul

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 71)

• Elredo de Rieval (1110-1167)
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2022

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 also sharply criticized for his frankness about his own sinfulness and what some considered his favoritism and excessive leniency. Writings on ...

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Writings on Body and Soul

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• Elredo de Rieval (1110-1167)
• Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2022

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 also sharply criticized for his frankness about his own sinfulness and what some considered his favoritism and excessive leniency. Writings on ...