Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 (2001)


Byzantine Eschatology: Views on Death and the Last Things, 8th to 15th Centuries
Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1999

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George T. Dennis
Death in Byzantium

Joseph A. Munitz
The Predetermination of Death: The Contribution of Anastasios of Sinai and Nikephoros Blemmydes to a Perennial Byzantine Problem

Elena Velovska
Funeral Rites according to the Byzantine Liturgical Sources

John Wortley
Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in Byzantine "Beneficial Tales"

Brian E. Daley, S.J.
"At the Hour of Our Death": Mary's Dormition and Christian Dying in Late Patristic and Early Byzantine Literature

Nicholas Constas
"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream": The Middle State of Souls in Patristic and Byzantine Literature

Alexander Golitzin
"Earthly Angels and Heavenly Men": The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Niketas Stethatos, and the Tradition of "Interiorized Apocalyptic" in Eastern Christian Ascetical and Mystical Literature

Alexander Alexakis
Was There Life beyond the Life Beyond? Byzantine Ideas on Reincarnation and Final Restoration

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Byzantium in the Medieval World: Monetary Transactions and Exchange
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium 1999

Lucia Travaini
The Normans between Byzantium and the Islamic World

Alan M. Stahl
Coinage and Money in the Latin Empire of Constantinople

Angeliki E. Laiou
Use and Circulation of Coins in the Despotate of Epiros

Cécile Morrisson
Coin Usage and Exchange Rates in Badoer's Libro dei Conti

Anthony Cutler
Gifts and Gift Exchange as Aspects of the Byzantine, Arab, and Related Economies

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Miscellaneous Articles

Nick Henck
Constantius ho Philoktistes?

Ann van Dijk
Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople: The Peter Cycle in the Oratory of Pope John VII (705­707)

Dmitry Afinogenov
The Conspiracy of Michael Traulos and the Assassination of Leo V: History and Fiction

George C. Maniatis
The Domain of Private Guilds in the Byzantine Economy, Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries

Fieldwork Report
C. S. Lightfoot, E. A. Ivison, et al.
The Amorium Project: The 1998 Excavation Season

List of Abbreviations, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55

Style Guide for the Dumbarton Oaks Papers