The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (est. 2010) is a series of books published by

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in collaboration with the

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and garden of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife, ...

. It presents editions of texts originally written in

medieval Latin Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a Literary language, literary standard language, standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was used f ...

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, 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 emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her particular expertise is the social context of Byzantine religious practices, including hagiography, monasticism a ...

(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 Jan Ziolkowski (born November 17, 1956) occupies the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professorship of Medieval Latin at Harvard University. From 2007 to 2020 he served as Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. His scholarship has fo ...

; 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_(publisher), Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works ...

, I Tatti Renaissance Library, and

Murty Classical Library of India The Murty Classical Library of India began publishing classics of Indian literature in January 2015. The books, which are in dual-language format with the original language and English facing, are published by Harvard University Press. The Columbia ...

.Adam Kirsch
Mysteries and Masterpieces: The latest stage in the "American conquest of the Middle Ages"
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'', Jan.-Feb. 2012. Accessed 11 September 2016.

Volumes

References

External links

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library on the Harvard University Press website

Dumbarton Oaks website

Harvard University Press

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