title: Byzantium, A World Civilization (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)
author: Angeliki E. Laiou
description: This book introduces the great civilization of Byzantium and shows the centrality of Byzantium's role in world history. It also celebrates the founding of one of the major institutions devoted to the study of that civilization, the Byzantine Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.
zlib_text: DUMBARTON 
  OAKS 
  PAPERS 
  NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 
  DUMBARTON 
  OAKS 
  CENTER FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES 
  Trustees for Harvard University 
  Washington, District of Columbia 
  
  DUMBARTON OAKS 
  PAPERS 
  Number Thirty-two 
  THE 
  Dumbarton Oaks Papers were found- 
  ed in 1941 for the publication of articles 
  concerning late classical, early medieval, and 
  Byzantine civilization in the fields of Art 
  and Architecture, History, Theology, Liter- 
  ature, and Law. 
  Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 32, contains the 
  following studies and notes: 
  Cyril A. Mango and Ihor Sevcenko: Some 
  Recently Acquired Byzantine Inscriptions at the 
  Istanbul Archaeological Museum 
  Evangelos K. Chrysos: The Title BacrinEu in 
  Early Byzantine International Relations 
  Dimitri Obolensky: A Philorhomaios Anthro- 
  pos: Metropolitan Cyprian of Kiev and All 
  Russia (1375-1406) 
  Barry Baldwin: Menander Protector 
  Lennart Ryd6n: The Date of the Life of An- 
  dreas Salos 
  Denis F. Sullivan: The Versions of the Vita 
  Niconis 
  Jeffrey C. Anderson: Cod. Va