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 ELEVEN 
  Edited by 
  The Committee on Publications 
  The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 
  Trustees for Harvard University 
  Washington, District of Columbia 
  HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
  PRESS 
  Cambridge, Massachusetts 
  
  $7.50 
  DUMBARTON 
  OAKS PAPERS 
  NUMBER ELEVEN 
  FOUNDED 
  in 1941, the Dumbarton Oaks 
  Papers provide a vehicle for the publica- 
  tion of articles concerning late classical, 
  early medieval, and Byzantine civilization 
  in the fields of Art and Architecture, 
  History, Theology, Literature, and Law. 
  Dumbarton Oaks Papers Number II con- 
  tains the following studies and notes: 
  Harry A. Wolfson: Philosophical Implica- 
  tions of the Theology of Cyril of Jerusalem 
  Dimitri Obolensky: Byzantium, Kiev and 
  Moscow: A Study in Ecclesiastical Rela- 
  tions 
  Ihor Sevcenko: Nicolas Cabasilas' "Anti- 
  Zealot" Discourse: A Reinterpretation 
  Paul A. Underwood: Second Preliminary 
  Report on the Restoration of the Frescoes 
  in the Kariye Camii at Istanbul 