The Oaks News

W. Sasson Chahanovich explains how the conquest of Constantinople kickstarted Ottoman enthusiasm for the end-times

Robyn Bollinger revives the macabre Paganini, “The Hot Canary,” and other touchstones of an indulgent musical tradition

Loa Traxler synthesizes what the physical remains of a dynastic founder reveal about the Classic Maya world and interactions with Teotihuacan

James Almeida studies enslavement, racial ideology, and labor history in the Andes and at Dumbarton Oaks

Héléna Rochard reassesses one of the largest corpora of monastic wall paintings in Early Byzantium

Six new releases in a project to make classic books more accessible

Robust virtual scholarly programming and internships developed for the summer months

Dimiter Angelov studies geography in twelfth-century Constantinople and translates texts on philosophy, friendship, and Hellenic identity

Lindi Masur puts seeds under the microscope to find new evidence for indigenous food production and landscape management

Costas Constantinides catalogues a rare manuscript collection ranging from medieval textbooks to works by classical poets and orators