Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 70

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.

In this issue: Roland Betancourt, “Why Sight Is Not Touch: Reconsidering the Tactility of Vision in Byzantium”; Byron MacDougall, “Gregory Thaumaturgus: A Platonic Lawgiver”; Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, “‘The Stone the Builders Rejected’: Liturgical and Exegetical Irrelevancies in the Piacenza Pilgrim”; Nicholas Warner, “The Architecture of the Red Monastery Church (Dayr Anbā Bišūy) in Egypt: An Evolving Anatomy”; Ilene H. Forsyth with Elizabeth Sears, “George H. Forsyth and the Sacred Fortress at Sinai”; Heta Björklund, “Classical Traces of Metamorphosis in the Byzantine Hystera Formula”; Anne-Laurence Caudano, “‘These Are the Only Four Seas’: The World Map of Bologna, University Library, Codex 3632”; Charis Messis, “Les voix littéraires des eunuques: Genre et identité du soi à Byzance”; Przemysław Marciniak, “Reinventing Lucian in Byzantium”; Aglae Pizzone, “Audiences and Emotions in Eustathios of Thessalonike’s Commentaries on Homer”; Niels Gaul, “All the Emperor’s Men (and His Nephews): Paideia and Networking Strategies at the Court of Andronikos II Palaiologos, 1290–1320”; Christopher Wright, “Constantinople and the Coup d’État in Palaiologan Byzantium”; and Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, “A Newly Acquired Gospel Manuscript at Dumbarton Oaks (DO MS 5): Codicological and Paleographic Description and Analysis.”