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Alice-Mary Talbot, ed.
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 63.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Papers.
Publication due: May 2011.
Size: 8-1/2 x 11 inches.
Page count: 350.
Illustrations: 124 halftones.

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Hardback ISBN 9780884023579, $125.00 / £92.95 / €112.50

Description:

This volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers includes a study of military and diplomatic initiatives in the northwestern Balkans during the reign of Justinian I, with a focus on the role of the Germanic tribe of Gepids, and an analysis of descriptions of motherhood in Byzantine literature. Other articles treat the illustration of ninth-century marginal psalters, re-evaluate the so-called Frame Group of twelfth-century ivories, suggesting a possible provenance from the Holy Land, and discuss the tombs in the Monastery of the Lips in Constantinople. The volume concludes with a fieldwork report on the Monastery of Shenute at Suhag in Upper Egypt (the "White Monastery"), a fieldwork report on the recent restoration of the Zeyrek Camii (Pantokrator Monastery) in Constantinople, and a bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal material from Sourtara in northern Greece.