This issue includes “Apostolic Geography: The Origins and Continuity of a Hagiographic Habit” (Scott Fitzgerald Johnson); “John Lydus and His Contemporaries on Identities and Cultures of Sixth-Century Byzantium” (Sviatoslav Dmitriev); “Grotesque Bodies in Hagiographical Tales: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Byzantine Collections of Miracle Stories” (Stavroula Constantinou); “Byzantine Political Culture and Compilation Literature in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Preliminary Inquiries” (Catherine Holmes); “Byzantine Mirrors: Self-Reflection in Medieval Greek Writing” (Stratis Papaioannou); “Transformative Narratives and Shifting Identities in the Narthex of the Boiana Church” (Rossitza B. Schroeder); “Tracing Monastic Economic Interests and Their Impact on the Rural Landscape of Late Byzantine Lemnos” (Fotini Kondyli); “The Imperial Image at the End of Exile: The Byzantine Embroidered Silk in Genoa and the Treaty of Nymphaion (1261)” (Cecily J. Hilsdale); “A Byzantine Text on the Technique of Icon Painting” (Georgi R. Parpulov, Irina V. Dolgikh, and Peter Cowe); and “New Archaeology at Ancient Scetis: Surveys and Initial Excavations at the Monastery of St. John the Little in Wādī al-Naṭrūn” (Darlene Brooks Hedstrom with Stephen J. Davis, Tomasz Herbich, Salima Ikram, Dawn McCormack, Marie-Dominique Nenna, and Gillian Pyke).

This issue includes “Bishops and Territory: The Case of Late Roman and Byzantine North Africa” (Anna Leone); “A Conflicted Heritage: The Byzantine Religious Establishment of a War Ethic” (J. A. McGuckin); “Hoards and Hoarding Patterns in the Early Byzantine Balkans” (Florin Curta and Andrei Gândilă); “Light, Color, and Visual Illusion in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus” (Michael Roberts); “At the Edge of Two Empires: The Economy of Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (650s–800s CE)” (Luca Zavagno); “China, Byzantium, and the Shadow of the Steppe” (David A. Graff); “‘And So, with the Help of God’: The Byzantine Art of War in the Tenth Century” (Robert S. Nelson); “The Image of the Virgin Nursing (Galaktotrophousa) and a Unique Inscription on the Seals of Romanos, Metropolitan of Kyzikos” (John Cotsonis); “Marching across Anatolia: Medieval Logistics and Modeling the Mantzikert Campaign” (John Haldon with Vince Gaffney, Georgios Theodoropoulos, and Phil Murgatroyd); “The Moral Pieces by Theodore II Laskaris” (Dimiter G. Angelov); “Mary Magdalene between East and West: Cult and Image, Relics and Politics in the Late Thirteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean” (Vassiliki A. Foskolou); “Byzantine Houses and Modern Fictions: Domesticating Mystras in 1930s Greece” (Kostis Kourelis); and “The White Monastery Federation Project: Survey and Mapping at the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (Dayr al-Anba Shinūda), Sohag, 2005–2007” (Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom and Elizabeth S. Bolman with Mohammed Abdel Rahim, Saad Mohammed, Dawn McCormack, Tomasz Herbich, Gillian Pyke, Louise Blanke, Tracy Musacchio, and Mohammed Khalifa).

Founded in 1941, the annual journal Dumbarton Oaks Papers is dedicated to the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archaeology, literature, theology, law, and auxiliary disciplines.

This issue includes “The Canon Tables of the Psalms: An Unknown Work of Eusebius of Caesarea” by Martin Wallraff; “Histoires ‘Gothiques’ à Byzance: Le Saint, Le Soldat, et Le Miracle d’Euphémie et du Goth (BHG 739)” by Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou; “Reassessing the Sarcophagi of Ravenna” by Edward M. Schoolman; “Sources for the Study of Liturgy in Post-Byzantine Jerusalem (638–1187 CE)” by Daniel Galadza; “(Re)Mapping Medieval Antioch: Urban Transformations from the Early Islamic to the Middle Byzantine Periods” by A. Asa Eger; “Melkites and Icon Worship during the Iconoclastic Period” by Juan Signes Codoñer; “The Anzas Family: Members of the Byzantine Civil Establishment in the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Centuries” by John Nesbitt and Werner Seibt; “Viewing and Description in Hysmine and Hysminias: The Fresco of the Virtues” by Paroma Chatterjee; “The Documents of Dominicus Grimani, Notary in Candia (1356–1357)” by Nicky Tsougarakis; and “The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Kaftūn (Northern Lebanon) and Its Wall Paintings” by Tomasz Waliszewski, Krzysztof Chmielewski, Mat Immerzeel, and Nada Hélou.

This issue includes “Exiling Bishops: The Policy of Constantius II,” by Walt Stevenson; “In Search of Monotheletism,” by Jack Tannous; “The Archaeology and Reconstruction of Zuartʿnocʿ,” by Christina Maranci; “The South Vestibule of Hagia Sophia at Istanbul: The Ornamental Mosaics and the Private Door of the Patriarchate,” by Philipp Niewöhner and Natalia Teteriatnikov; “Reality and Invention: Reflections on Byzantine Historiography,” by Ralph-Johannes Lilie; “An Enigmatic Literature: Interpreting an Unedited Collection of Byzantine Riddles in a Manuscript of Cardinal Bessarion (Marcianus Graecus 512),” by Simone Beta; “Threads of Power: Clothing Symbolism, Human Salvation, and Female Identity in the Illustrated Homilies by Iakobos of Kokkinobaphos,” by Maria Evangelatou; “The Byzantino-Latin Principality of Adrianople and the Challenge of Feudalism (1204/6–ca. 1227/28): Empire, Venice, and Local Autonomy,” by Filip Van Tricht; “The Image of the Virgin on the Sinai Hexaptych and the Apse Mosaic of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople,” by Zaza Skhirtladze; “Odd Surnames Beginning with Alpha: A Selection of Examples on Byzantine Seals in the Harvard Collections,” by Werner Seibt and John Nesbitt; “The Miniatures in the Rabbula Gospels: Postscripta to a Recent Book,” by Massimo Bernabò; and “Fieldwork Report: Results of the Tophane Area GPR Surveys, Bursa, Turkey,” by Suna Çağaptay with April Kamp-Whittaker and Lawrence Conyers.

In this issue: Jeffrey Wickes, “Mapping the Literary Landscape of Ephrem’s Theology of Divine Names”; Örgü Dalgıç, “The Triumph of Dionysos in Constantinople”; Lain Wilson, “A Subaltern’s Fate”; Antony Eastmond, “The Heavenly Court, Courtly Ceremony, and the Great Byzantine Ivory Triptychs of the Tenth Century”; Timothy Greenwood, “A Corpus of Early Medieval Armenian Silver” (with an Appendix, “Carbunculus ardens: The Garnet on the Narses Cross in Context,” by Noël Adams); Stefanos Alexopoulos, “When a Column Speaks”; Floris Bernard, “Humor in Byzantine Letters of the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries”; Angelina Anne Volkoff, “Komnenian Double Surnames on Lead Seals”; Margaret Alexiou, “Of Longings and Loves”; Panagiotis A. Agapitos, “Literary Haute Cuisine and Its Dangers”; Niels Gaul, “Writing ‘with Joyful and Leaping Soul’”; Natalia Teteriatnikov, “The Last Palaiologan Mosaic Program of Hagia Sophia”; Jonathan Shea, “Longuet’s ‘Salonica Hoard’ and the Mint of Thessalonike in the Mid-Fourteenth Century”; Tera Lee Hedrick and Nina Ergin, “A Shared Culture of Heavenly Fragrance”; and Mark Jackson, “2007–2011 Excavations at Kilise Tepe.”

In this issue: Roland Betancourt, “Why Sight Is Not Touch: Reconsidering the Tactility of Vision in Byzantium”; Byron MacDougall, “Gregory Thaumaturgus: A Platonic Lawgiver”; Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, “‘The Stone the Builders Rejected’: Liturgical and Exegetical Irrelevancies in the Piacenza Pilgrim”; Nicholas Warner, “The Architecture of the Red Monastery Church (Dayr Anbā Bišūy) in Egypt: An Evolving Anatomy”; Ilene H. Forsyth with Elizabeth Sears, “George H. Forsyth and the Sacred Fortress at Sinai”; Heta Björklund, “Classical Traces of Metamorphosis in the Byzantine Hystera Formula”; Anne-Laurence Caudano, “‘These Are the Only Four Seas’: The World Map of Bologna, University Library, Codex 3632”; Charis Messis, “Les voix littéraires des eunuques: Genre et identité du soi à Byzance”; Przemysław Marciniak, “Reinventing Lucian in Byzantium”; Aglae Pizzone, “Audiences and Emotions in Eustathios of Thessalonike’s Commentaries on Homer”; Niels Gaul, “All the Emperor’s Men (and His Nephews): Paideia and Networking Strategies at the Court of Andronikos II Palaiologos, 1290–1320”; Christopher Wright, “Constantinople and the Coup d’État in Palaiologan Byzantium”; and Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, “A Newly Acquired Gospel Manuscript at Dumbarton Oaks (DO MS 5): Codicological and Paleographic Description and Analysis.”

Founded by Constantine the Great, rebuilt by Justinian, and redecorated in the ninth, tenth, and twelfth centuries, the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople was the mausoleum of emperors, patriarchs, and saints. It was also a key station in the ceremonies of the city, the site of an important school, a major inspiration for apostolic literature, and briefly the home of the patriarch. Despite its significance, the church no longer exists, replaced by the mosque of Mehmet II after the fall of the city to the Ottomans. Today the church is remembered primarily from two important middle Byzantine ekphraseis, which celebrate its beauty and prominence, as well as from architectural copies and manuscript illustrations.

Scholars have long puzzled over the appearance of the church, as well as its importance to the Byzantines. Anxious to reconstruct the building and its place in the empire, an early collaborative project of Dumbarton Oaks brought together a philologist, an art historian, and an architectural historian in the 1940s and 1950s to reconstruct their own version of the Holy Apostles. Never fully realized, their efforts remained unpublished. The essays in this volume reconsider their project from a variety of vantage points, while illuminating differences of approach seventy years later, to arrive at a twenty-first-century synthesis.

How does sense perception contribute to human cognition? How did the Byzantines understand that contribution? Byzantine culture in all its domains showed deep appreciation for sensory awareness and sensory experience. The senses were reckoned as modes of knowledge—intersecting realms both human and divine, bodily and spiritual, physical and intellectual.

Scholars have attended to aspects of sight and sound in Byzantine culture, but have generally left smell, taste, and touch undervalued and understudied. Through collected essays that redress the imbalance, the contributors explore how the Byzantines viewed the senses; how they envisaged sensory interactions within their world; and how they described, narrated, and represented the senses at work. The result is a fresh charting of the Byzantine sensorium as a whole.