DUMBARTON OAKS PAPERS
55 (2001)

Contents

Byzantine Eschatology: Views on Death and the Last Things, 8th to 15th Centuries Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1999

 

 

George T. Dennis, Death in Byzantium 1
Joseph A. Munitz, The Predetermination of Death: The Contribution of Anastasios of Sinai and Nikephoros Blemmydes to a Perennial Byzantine Problem 9
Elena Velovska, Funeral Rites according to the Byzantine Liturgical Sources 21
John Wortley, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in Byzantine "Beneficial Tales" 53
Brian E. Daley, S.J., "At the Hour of Our Death": Mary's Dormition and Christian Dying in Late Patristic and Early Byzantine Literature 71
Nicholas Constas, "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream": The Middle State of Souls in Patristic and Byzantine Literature 91
Alexander Golitzin, "Earthly Angels and Heavenly Men": The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Niketas Stethatos, and the Tradition of "Interiorized Apocalyptic" in Eastern Christian Ascetical and Mystical Literature 125
Alexander Alexakis, Was There Life beyond the Life Beyond? Byzantine Ideas on Reincarnation and Final Restoration 155

Byzantium in the Medieval World: Monetary Transactions and Exchange Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium 1999

Lucia Travaini, The Normans between Byzantium and the Islamic World 179
Alan M. Stahl, Coinage and Money in the Latin Empire of Constantinople 197
Angeliki E. Laiou, Use and Circulation of Coins in the Despotate of Epiros 207
Cécile Morrisson, Coin Usage and Exchange Rates in Badoer's Libro dei Conti 217
Anthony Cutler, Gifts and Gift Exchange as Aspects of the Byzantine, Arab, and Related Economies 245

Miscellaneous Articles

Nick Henk, Constantius ho Philoktistes? 277
Ann van Dijk, Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople: The Peter Cycle in the Oratory of Pope John VII (705-707) 303
Dmitry Afinogenov, The Conspiracy of Michael Traulos and the Assassination of Leo V: History and Fiction 327
George C. Maniatis, The Domain of Private Guilds in the Byzantine Economy, Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries 337