The Oaks News

Jessie Montgomery brings Black history to the operatic stage

From dragons to monks, a medieval book for every reader

Recent acquisitions complement seals in the collection and highlight the stories of individual Byzantines

Danika Cooper confronts the consequences of perceiving arid lands as barren

Eric McGeer offers public lecture discussing the Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes, honoring John Nesbitt

Beth Grávalos uncovers new Recuay histories by analyzing plainware ceramics

Romain Goudjil studies the relationship between ecclesiastical and imperial power in medieval Byzantium

Katherine M. Bentz considers the history of Italian villas beyond architecture

Mallory Matsumoto studies classic Maya sociocultural history through paleographic changes

Felipe Ledesma-Núñez discusses the fall of the Aztec Empire, based on Nahua accounts of the epidemics brought by Spanish invaders