Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 64

Founded in 1941, the annual journal Dumbarton Oaks Papers is dedicated to the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archaeology, literature, theology, law, and auxiliary disciplines.

This issue includes “Apostolic Geography: The Origins and Continuity of a Hagiographic Habit” (Scott Fitzgerald Johnson); “John Lydus and His Contemporaries on Identities and Cultures of Sixth-Century Byzantium” (Sviatoslav Dmitriev); “Grotesque Bodies in Hagiographical Tales: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Byzantine Collections of Miracle Stories” (Stavroula Constantinou); “Byzantine Political Culture and Compilation Literature in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Preliminary Inquiries” (Catherine Holmes); “Byzantine Mirrors: Self-Reflection in Medieval Greek Writing” (Stratis Papaioannou); “Transformative Narratives and Shifting Identities in the Narthex of the Boiana Church” (Rossitza B. Schroeder); “Tracing Monastic Economic Interests and Their Impact on the Rural Landscape of Late Byzantine Lemnos” (Fotini Kondyli); “The Imperial Image at the End of Exile: The Byzantine Embroidered Silk in Genoa and the Treaty of Nymphaion (1261)” (Cecily J. Hilsdale); “A Byzantine Text on the Technique of Icon Painting” (Georgi R. Parpulov, Irina V. Dolgikh, and Peter Cowe); and “New Archaeology at Ancient Scetis: Surveys and Initial Excavations at the Monastery of St. John the Little in Wādī al-Naṭrūn” (Darlene Brooks Hedstrom with Stephen J. Davis, Tomasz Herbich, Salima Ikram, Dawn McCormack, Marie-Dominique Nenna, and Gillian Pyke).