Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (est. 2010) is a series of books published by Harvard University Press in collaboration with the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. It presents editions of texts originally written in medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, 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 (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, I Tatti Renaissance Library, and Murty Classical Library of India.[1]

Volumes

• The Vulgate Bible, with the Douay-Rheims Translation, 6 volumes in 7 parts
• The Arundel Lyrics. The Poems of Hugh Primas
• The "Beowulf" Manuscript, Complete Texts and "The Fight at Finnsburg"[2]
• The Rule of Saint Benedict
• Old Testament Narratives (Old English verse retellings of biblical stories)
• Satires of Sextus Amarcius. Eupolemius[3]
• Richer of Saint-Rémi, Histories, 2 volumes
• Miracle Tales from Byzantium
• Pseudo-Methodius, Apocalypse. An Alexandrian World Chronicle[4]
• Old English Shorter Poems, 2 volumes
• One Hundred Latin Hymns: Ambrose to Aquinas
• Michael Attaleiates, The History[5]
• The Old English Boethius, with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred[6]
• Niketas Stethatos, The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian
• Alan of Lille, Literary Works
• The Old English Poems of Cynewulf
• Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria
• Egbert of Liège, The Well-Laden Ship (2013)
• Ysengrimus
• Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints
• Maximos the Confessor, On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The "Ambigua", 2 volumes
• Henry of Avranches, Saints' Lives, 2 volumes
• Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, 2 volumes
• Amalar of Metz, On the Liturgy, 2 volumes
• John Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad
• Bernardus Silvestris, Poetic Works
• Gregory of Tours, Lives and Miracles
• Holy Men of Mount Athos
• Calcidius, On Plato’s Timaeus
• Old English Psalms
• Nikephoros Basilakes, Rhetorical Exercises
• The Old English History of the World: An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius
• Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes
• Venantius Fortunatus, Poems
• The Life of Saint Neilos of Rossano
• Carmina Burana, 2 volumes
• The Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous
• Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad
• Michael Panaretos and Bessarion, Two Works on Trebizond
• Tria sunt: An Art of Poetry and Prose
• Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece
• John of Hauville, Architrenius
• John Tzetzes, Allegories of the Odyssey
• the first variant version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain
• Ælfric, Lives of Saints, 3 volumes
• Theodore Metochites, On Morals or Concerning Education
• Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages
• Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints
• Sophronios of Jerusalem, Homilies
• John of Garland, Parisiana poetria
• Wulfstan, Old English Legal Writings

References

1. Adam Kirsch, Mysteries and Masterpieces: The latest stage in the "American conquest of the Middle Ages", Harvard Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2012. Accessed 11 September 2016.
2. Harris, J. (2012). "R. D. Fulk, ed. and trans., The "Beowulf" Manuscript: Complete Texts and "The Fight at Finnsburg." (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 3.) Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. Xxv, 374. $29.95". Speculum. 87: 215. doi:10.1017/S0038713412000267. ISBN 978-0674052956.
3. Newman, Jonathan (June 2012). "Pepin, trans. and Ziolkowski, ed. and trans., Satires of Sextus Amarcius and Eupolemius". The Medieval Review.
4. Pollard, R. M. (2013). "Benjamin Garstad, ed. And trans., "Apocalypse" of Pseudo-Methodius. An Alexandrian World Chronicle. (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 14). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. Xxxix, 420. $29.95". Speculum. 88 (2): 515. doi:10.1017/S0038713413000936. ISBN 9780674053076.
5. Treadgold, Warren (April 2013). "Kaldellis and Krallis, eds., The History of Michael Attaleiates". The Medieval Review.
6. Beechy, Tiffany (July 2013). "Irvine & Godden, eds., The Old English Boethius". The Medieval Review.

External links

• The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library on the Harvard University Press website
• Dumbarton Oaks website
• Harvard University Press
• Harvard University Press Blog post on DOML edition, Saints' Lives of Henry of Avranches