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Dumbarton Oaks Papers DUMBARTON OAKS PAPERS articles sorted by volume Created 12 April 2021 based on the master Zotero database of all DOP articles available here. Vol. 74 (2020) Berg, Baukje van den. “John Tzetzes as Didactic Poet and Learned Grammarian.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 285–302. www.jstor.org/stable/26979086. Connelly, Coleman. “Continued Celebration of the Kalends of January in the Medieval Islamic East.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 41–65. www.jstor.org/stable/26979079. Frøyshov, Stig Simeon R. “The Early History of the Hagiopolitan Daily Office in Constantinople: New Perspectives on the Formative Period of the Byzantine Rite.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 351–82. www.jstor.org/stable/26979089. Gerevini, Stefania. “Art as Politics in the Baptistery and Chapel of Sant’Isidoro at San Marco, Ven- ice.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 243–68. www.jstor.org/stable/26979084. Gerhold, Victoria. “The Legend of Euphratas: Some Notes on Its Origins, Development, and Sig- nificance.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 67–123. www.jstor.org/stable/26979080. Kinloch, Matthew. “In the Name of the Father, the Husband, or Some Other Man: The Subordi- nation of Female Characters in Byzantine Historiography.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 303–28. www.jstor.org/stable/26979087. Langdon, John S., and Stephen W. Reinert. “Speros Vryonis Jr. (1928–2019).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 1–7. www.jstor.org/stable/26979077. Levente, László. “Rhetorius, Zeno’s Astrologer, and a Sixth-Century Astrological Compendium.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 329–50. www.jstor.org/stable/26979088. Makris, Georgios. “Living in Turbulent Times: Monasteries, Settlements, and Laypeople in Late Byzantine Southwest Thrace.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 161–83. www.jstor.org/sta- ble/26979082. Niewöhner, Philipp. “The Significance of the Cross before, during, and after Iconoclasm: Early Christian Aniconism in Constantinople and Asia Minor.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 185–242. www.jstor.org/stable/26979083. Pfuntner, Laura. “Between Science and Superstition: Photius, Diodorus Siculus, and ‘Hermaphro- dites’.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 269–83. www.jstor.org/stable/26979085. “Processions: Urban Ritual in Byzantium and Neighboring Lands Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, 12–13 April 2019.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 383–84. www.jstor.org/stable/26979090. 1 | Dumbarton Oaks Papers, sorted by volume Modified 12 April 2021 Simelidis, Christos. “Two Lives of the Virgin: John Geometres, Euthymios the Athonite, and Maximos the Confessor.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 125–59. www.jstor.org/sta- ble/26979081. Terian, Abraham. “Monastic Turmoil in Sixth-Century Jerusalem and the South Caucasus: The Letter of Patriarch John IV to Catholicos Abas of the Caucasian Albanians.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 9–39. www.jstor.org/stable/26979078. Vol. 73 (2019) Ball, Jennifer L. “Rich Interiors: The Remnant of a Hanging from Late Antique Egypt in the Collection of Dumbarton Oaks.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 261–97. www.jstor.org/ stable/26955181. Boero, Dina. “Making a Manuscript, Making a Cult: Scribal Production of the Syriac Life of Symeon the Stylite in Late Antiquity.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 25–67. www.jstor.org/ stable/26955171. Bühl, Gudrun, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams. “Introduction.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 143–44. www.jstor.org/stable/26955175. Campana, Lilia. “Sailing into Union: The Byzantine Naval Convoy for the Council of Ferr- ara–Florence (1438-1439).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 103–25. www.jstor.org/sta- ble/26955173. Colburn, Kathrin. “Loops, Tabs, and Reinforced Edges: Evidence for Textiles as Architectural Elements.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 187–216. www.jstor.org/stable/26955178. Destephen, Sylvain. “From Mobile Center to Constantinople: The Birth of Byzantine Imperial Government.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 9–23. www.jstor.org/stable/26955170. Dospěl Williams, Elizabeth. “A Taste for Textiles: Designing Umayyad and Early 'Abbāsid Interi- ors.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 409–32. www.jstor.org/stable/26955185. Evangelatou, Maria. “Textile Mediation in Late Byzantine Visual Culture: Unveiling Layers of Meaning through the Fabrics of the Chora Monastery.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 299–353. www.jstor.org/stable/26955182. Galadza, Daniel. “Robert F. Taft, S.J. (1932-2018).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 4–8. www. jstor.org/stable/26955169. Jeffery, Hugh G. “New Lead Seals from Aphrodisias.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 127–40. www.jstor.org/stable/26955174. Kaegi, Walter E. “Irfan Shahîd (1926–2016).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 1–3. www.jstor. org/stable/26955168. Kourelis, Kostis. “Wool and Rubble Walls: Domestic Archaeology in the Medieval Peloponnese.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 165–85. www.jstor.org/stable/26955177. Maguire, Eunice Dauterman. “Curtains at the Threshold: How They Hung and How They -Per for m e d .” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 217–43. www.jstor.org/stable/26955179. 2 | Dumbarton Oaks Papers, sorted by volume Modified 12 April 2021 Parani, Maria G. “Curtains in the Middle and Late Byzantine House.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 145–63. www.jstor.org/stable/26955176. Roberts, Alexandre M. “Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex.” Dumbarton Oaks Pa- pers 73 (2019): 69–102. www.jstor.org/stable/26955172. Schrenk, Sabine. “The Background of the Enthroned: Spatial Analysis of the Hanging with Hes- tia Polyolbos in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 245–59. www.jstor.org/stable/26955180. Shalem, Avinoam. “‘The Nation Has Put On Garments of Blood’: An Early Islamic Red Silken Tapestry in Split.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 389–408. www.jstor.org/stable/26955184. “The Diagram Paradigm: Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, 20-21 April 2018.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 433–34. www.jstor.org/sta- ble/26955186. Thomas, Thelma K. “The Honorific Mantle as Furnishing for the Household Memory Theater in Late Antiquity: A Case Study from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 73 (2019): 355–87. www.jstor.org/stable/26955183. Vol. 72 (2018) Aschenbrenner, Nathanael. “Contesting Ceremony, Constructing Byzantium: Reading Pseu- do-Kodinos in Early Modern Europe.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 197–214. www.jstor. org/stable/26892570. Becker, Audrey. “Verbal and Nonverbal Diplomatic Communication at the Imperial Court of Constantinople (Fifth–Sixth Centuries).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 79–92. www.jstor. org/stable/26892565. Botley, Paul. “Greek Literature in Exile: The Books of Andronicus Callistus, 1475-1476.” Dumbar- ton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 181–96. www.jstor.org/stable/26892569. Busine, Aude. “The Dux and the Nun: Hagiography and the Cult of Artemios and Febronia in Constantinople.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 93–111. www.jstor.org/stable/26892566. Caner, Daniel. “Not a Hospital but a Leprosarium: Basil’s Basilias and an Early Byzantine Con- cept of the Deserving Poor.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 25–48. www.jstor.org/sta- ble/26892563. Garstad, Benjamin. “Dionysiac and Christian Elements in the Lysos Episode in the Greek Al- exander Romance (β Rec.).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 49–77. www.jstor.org/sta- ble/26892564. Gkoutzioukostas, Andreas, and Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt. “The Origin and the Mem- bers of the Kamytzes Family: A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 169–79. www.jstor.org/stable/26892568. “Rethinking Empire: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, 21–22 April 2017.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 215–16. www.jstor.org/stable/26892571. 3 | Dumbarton Oaks Papers, sorted by volume Modified 12 April 2021 Van Dam, Raymond. “Eastern Aristocracies and Imperial Courts: Constantine’s Half-Brother, Li- cinius’s Prefect, and Egyptian Grain.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 1–24. www.jstor.org/ stable/26892562. Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “‘Psalms Useful for Everything’: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Manu- als for the Amuletic Use of the Psalter.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 (2018): 113–68. www.jstor. org/stable/26892567. Vol. 71 (2017) Baker, Julian, Turan Gökyildirim, and Filippo Dompieri. “The Reformed Byzantine Silver-Based Currencies (ca. 1372–1379) in Light of the Hoards from the Belgrade Gate.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 273–336. www.jstor.org/stable/26497753. Drandaki, Anastasia. “Piety, Politics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Venetian Crete.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 367–406. www.jstor.org/stable/26497755. Erismann, Christophe. “Theodore the Studite and Photius on the Humanity of Christ: A Neglect- ed Byzantine Discussion on Universals in the Time of Iconoclasm.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 175–92. www.jstor.org/stable/26497749. Glynias, Joe. “Prayerful Iconoclasts: Psalm Seals and Elite Formation in the First Iconoclast Era (726–750).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 65–94. www.jstor.org/stable/26497746. Leonte, Florin. “Visions of Empire: Gaze, Space, and Territory in Isidore’s Encomium for John VIII Palaiologos.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 249–72. www.jstor.org/stable/26497752. Marinis, Vasileios. “The Vision of Last Judgment in the Vita of Saint Niphon (BHG 1371z).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 193–228. www.jstor.org/stable/26497750. Maskarinec, Maya. “Saints for All Christendom: Naturalizing the Alexandrian Saints Cyrus and John in Seventh- to Thirteenth-Century Rome.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 337–66. www.jstor.org/stable/26497754. Pickett,
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