Back in Print: Eriugena’s “Periphyseon”
The only complete English translation of Eriugena’s magnum opus
Behind the Scenes: Horseman, Poet, Soldier, Prince
Four recently acquired lead seals illuminate Byzantine lives and fill collection gaps
Ancient Pandemics Meet Climate Change
Michael McCormick combines science, archaeology, and history to solve puzzles from the past
Early Modern Armageddon
W. Sasson Chahanovich explains how the conquest of Constantinople kickstarted Ottoman enthusiasm for the end-times
The Rock Star of Encores
Robyn Bollinger revives the macabre Paganini, “The Hot Canary,” and other touchstones of an indulgent musical tradition
Finding Ancient Kings of Copan
Loa Traxler synthesizes what the physical remains of a dynastic founder reveal about the Classic Maya world and interactions with Teotihuacan
Forced Labor in the Americas
James Almeida studies enslavement, racial ideology, and labor history in the Andes and at Dumbarton Oaks
Rediscovering Bawit
Héléna Rochard reassesses one of the largest corpora of monastic wall paintings in Early Byzantium
Behind the Scenes: Giving Out-of-Print Treasures a New Life
Six new releases in a project to make classic books more accessible
Summer at Dumbarton Oaks Goes Digital
Robust virtual scholarly programming and internships developed for the summer months
Repurposing Ancient Knowledge
Dimiter Angelov studies geography in twelfth-century Constantinople and translates texts on philosophy, friendship, and Hellenic identity
Placemaking with Plants
Lindi Masur puts seeds under the microscope to find new evidence for indigenous food production and landscape management
Homer, Euripides, and Mount Athos
Costas Constantinides catalogues a rare manuscript collection ranging from medieval textbooks to works by classical poets and orators
Bringing Heaven Into the Church
Warren Woodfin presents six centuries of cross-referencing Orthodox ritual and heavenly iconography
Trees That Heal and Fly
Thomas Arentzen searches for Byzantine trees that interacted with humans and the divine
Biography of a Cultural Route
Eurydice Georganteli reveals the crucial importance of the Via Egnatia to European and world heritage
Behind the Scenes: Finding Food in Rare Books
Folger Before “Farm to Table” team visits the Plant Humanities Initiative
Of Landscape and Lawsuits
Philip Gant studies legal implications of the Buddhist temple as critical infrastructure
Picturesque Public Parks in Paris
Ann Komara digs deep into a celebrated nineteenth-century park transformed from a quarry site
Angels, Demons, and Narrative Conflict
Brad Boswell on how a fifth-century treatise out-narrates a rival
Hunting for Butterflies
Lewis Hyde talks butterflies, Buddhism, and the problem of the unforgettable
Digging into the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library: Spotlight on “Allegories of the Odyssey”
Zeus is destiny (and other keys to understanding Homer)
Surveying the Borderland
Patrick Mullins sees diversity, conflict, politics, and coca in an ancient frontier landscape