Two of the papers were written for the collection; the other 20 have been published over the past 40 years. They focus mostly on buildings in Constantinople, but also consider manuscripts relating to
The 25 papers widen the conventional studies of the Byzantine capital from the walled city itself to the European and Asian hinterlands, discussing such aspects as the products of the land, its admini
The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish
This latest volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers focuses in part on literary and historical texts: historicism in Byzantine thought and literature; the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, encompassing the Firs
