Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection 1995 Hardcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ISBN10: 0884022005, ISBN13: 9780884022008, [publisher: Washington D.C. : Harvard University Press.] Softcover VII; Ill. 162 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Small abrasions on the cover. Otherwise good and clean. - Leichter Abrieb auf dem Einband. Insgesamt gut und sauber. - This book introduces the great civilization of Byzantium and shows the centrality of Byzantium's role in world history. It also celebrates the founding by Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss of one of the major institutions devoted to the study of that civilization, the Byzantine Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. Through seven interrelated chapters, which were originally given as lectures at two meetings held in Washington in 1990 and in 1991 to honor the fiftieth anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, the contributors demonstrate the place of Byzantine civilization in world history—both Eastern and Western. At the same time, they show the place of Dumbarton Oaks in interpreting that civilization for what its founders called "an everchanging present." The first essay, written by Milton Anastos, a scholar who first came to Dumbarton Oaks in 1941, one year after the founding of the Byzantine Center, is devoted to the institution itself and to the role that it has played in Byzantine Studies over the past fifty years. The four following chapters, by Speros Vryonis, Dimitri ...
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