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Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999)

All of the articles published in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999)

John Duffy, “Embellishing the Steps: Elements of Presentation and Style in ‘The Heavenly Ladder’ of John Climacus,” 1–17.

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A. R. Littlewood, “The Byzantine Letter of Consolation in the Macedonian and Komnenian Periods,” 19–41.

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Tomas Hägg, “Photius as a Reader of Hagiography: Selection and Criticism,” 43–58.

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Ruth Webb, “The Aesthetics of Sacred Space: Narrative, Metaphor, and Motion in ‘Ekphraseis’ of Church Buildings,” 59–74.

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Alice-Mary Talbot, “Epigrams in Context: Metrical Inscriptions on Art and Architecture of the Palaiologan Era,” 75–90.

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Margaret Alexiou, “Ploys of Performance: Games and Play in the Ptochoprodromic Poems,” 91–109.

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Panagiotis A. Agapitos, “Dreams and the Spatial Aesthetics of Narrative Presentation in ‘Livistros and Rhodamne,’” 111–47.

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Nancy Patterson Sevcenko, “The ‘Vita’ Icon and the Painter as Hagiographer,” 149–65.

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Cynthia Hahn, “Narrative on the Golden Altar of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan: Presentation and Reception,” 167–87.

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Henry Maguire, “The Profane Aesthetic in Byzantine Art and Literature,” 189–205.

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Christian Hannick, “Exégèse, typologie et rhétorique dans l’hymnographie byzantine,” 207–18.

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Antony Eastmond, “Narratives of the Fall: Structure and Meaning in the Genesis Frieze at Hagia Sophia, Trebizond,” 219–36.

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Mark J. Johnson, “The Lost Royal Portraits of Gerace and Cefalù Cathedrals,” 237–62.

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George C. Maniatis, “Organization, Market Structure, and Modus Operandi of the Private Silk Industry in Tenth-Century Byzantium,” 263–332.

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C. S. Lightfoot, “The Amorium Project: The 1997 Study Season,” 333–49.

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“Constantinople: The Fabric of the City: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1998,” 351–52.

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