The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (est. 2010) is a series of books published by
Harvard University Press
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in collaboration with the
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. It presents editions of texts originally written in
medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned ...
,
Byzantine Greek
Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman c ...
, and
Old English
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, with facing-page translations into modern English. The aim is to make such texts accessible to English-speaking scholars and general readers.
The general editor is
Daniel Donoghue. The language editors are Daniel Donoghue (Old English),
Danuta Shanzer (Medieval Latin),
Alice-Mary Talbot
Alice-Mary Talbot (born May 16, 1939) is director of Byzantine studies Emeritus, emerita, Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Her particular expertise is the social context of Byzantine religious practices, including h ...
(Byzantine Greek, 2010–2019), and
Alexander Alexakis and
Richard Greenfield (Byzantine Greek coeditors, 2019 to the present). The founding editor of the series was
Jan M. Ziolkowski; he served as general editor from 2010 to 2020.
The series is a sister of three others published by Harvard University Press:
Loeb Classical Library
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works of ancient Greek and ...
,
I Tatti Renaissance Library, and
Murty Classical Library of India.
[Adam Kirsch]
Mysteries and Masterpieces: The latest stage in the "American conquest of the Middle Ages"
''Harvard Magazine
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'', Jan.-Feb. 2012. Accessed 11 September 2016.
Volumes
References
External links
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval LibraryThe Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library on the Harvard University Press websiteDumbarton Oaks websiteHarvard University Press{{Authority control
Series of books
Harvard University Press books
Classics publications
Dual-language series of texts
Translations into English
Book series introduced in 2010