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Oral History Interview with Herbert L. Kessler, undertaken by telephone on June 25, 2013, by Joshua Wilson and James W. Curtin. At Dumbarton Oaks, Herb Kessler was an assistant to Paul Underwood (1963), a Junior Fellow (1964–1965), and a Senior Fellow (1980–1986) of Byzantine Studies. With Kurt Weitzmann, Herb Kessler directed the Cotton Genesis Project (1979–1982).

Oral History Interview with Annemarie Weyl Carr, undertaken by James W. Curtin and Joshua Wilson in the Dumbarton Oaks Study on August 1, 2013. At Dumbarton Oaks, Annemarie Carr was a Junior Fellow (1970–1971), a Visiting Fellow (spring 1980), a Fellow (fall 1990), and a Visiting Scholar (2009–2010; fall 2018) of Byzantine Studies.

Oral History Interview with Irfan Shahîd, undertaken by Anna Bonnell-Freidin and Clem Wood in the Dumbarton Oaks Guest House (Fellows Building) on August 11, 2008. At Dumbarton Oaks, Irfan Shahîd was a Junior Fellow (1954–1955), a Visiting Fellow (1960–1961 and 1972–1973), a Visiting Scholar (1975–1976), and an Associate Fellow (1979–1984 and 1999–2008) of Byzantine Studies. He is presently an Honorary Affiliate Fellow of Byzantine Studies.

William of Adam’s plan to retake the Holy Land—one of several produced after the fall of Acre in 1291—reveals his extensive travels in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India.

The roll of documents preserves the most detailed statistical portrait before the Domesday Book of the finances, monuments, and female and male personnel of any major Christian church.

This volume taps into knowledge and skills from specialists in the medieval West, Byzantium, and Dante, and set the stage for further engagement with Dante’s corpus in its cultural settings.