Books from Dumbarton Oaks
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Popular Annuals of Eastern North America, 1865-1914
By Peggy Cornett Newcomb( Burpee , “ Flower Seed Novelties , " Farm Annual , 1888 , p . 91 ) Upright : tall growing ( J.T. ) Victoria : red ( J.B. ) 1901–1914 Bird's Mammoth : giant red flower spikes ; plants pyramidal ...
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Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: Michael VIII to Constantine XI,...
By Philip GriersonFOURLAS , A. 1980 Adler und Doppeladler . Materialen zum “ Adler in Byzanz . ” Mit einem bibliographischen Anhang zur Adlerforschung . In Philoxenia . Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kötting gewidmet von seinen griechischen Schülern , ed .
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Classic Maya Place Names
By David Stuart, Stephen D. HoustonAn important retainer of the last - known lord at the site was the ahaw of this place ( Fig . ... of the local gin composed of the signs LAKAM and TUN polity and A - CHAK - HA , or Ah Chakha ' , “ He of Be 当 C 99319 an a ਨ । b Fig .
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Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999
By Jeffrey Quilter, John W. HoopesIn Aboriginal Cultural Development in Latin America : An Interpretative Review ( B. Meggers and C. Evans , eds . ) : 45–54 . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections , 146. Smithsonian Institution , Washington , D.C. BAUDEZ , CLAUDE F.
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The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras
By David L. WebsterBibliography ABRAMS , ELLIOT M. Becker and Charles D. Cheek , eds . ) : 447–479 . n.d. Systems of Labor Organization in Late Classic La Estructura ioL - 18 . Instituto Hondureño de Copan , Honduras : The Energetics of ConAntropología e ...
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Seven Matched Hollow Gold Jaguars from Peru's Early Horizon
By Lee Allen Parsons, Heather Lechtman, William J. YoungOriginally both edges of each 15 R internal tube 8.4 14.9 75.8 tail - half were fitted with a kind of strip - clip that ran 16 R tail - half 9.8 14.5 75.0 like a thin ribbon along the entire length of the edge . R tail - half 8.7 14.7 ...
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Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance
By Dumbarton Oaks, Gary Vikanin the decades before 1860 by Prince Carl Friedrich Alexander of Prussia , third son of Friedrich Wilhelm III ; set into the wall of the Klosterhof of Prince Carl's Schloss Glienicke , Potsdam , and engraved there , in situ , by the ...
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Latin American Horizons: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 11th and 12th October 1986
By Don Stephen RiceLatin American Horizons: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 11th and 12th October 1986
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Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture
By Michel ConanThe papers presented in this volume range from proposals for new design approaches, historical analysis of the relationship between the practice of landscape architecture and environmentalism, to the theories of early practitioners of ...
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Perspectives on Garden Histories
By Michel ConanTopics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good
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Mesoamerican Writing Systems: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 30th and 31st, 1971
By Elizabeth P. Benson1933 The Phonetic Value of Certain Characters in Maya Writing . With an introduction by Alfred M. Tozzer . Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology , Harvard University , vol . XIII , no . 2. Cambridge .
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Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks
By Diane K. McGuireThe Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks was prepared as a resource for those charged with maintenance of the gardens following their acquisition by Harvard University in 1941.
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Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies
By Angeliki E. LaiouThis collection of essays addresses a number of questions regarding the role of consent in marriage and in sexual relations outside of marriage in ancient and medieval societies.
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Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994
By Stephen D. HoustonFunction and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994
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Gender in Pre-Hispanic America: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12 and 13 October 1996
By Cecelia F. KleinWhat will be found, however, is a collection of interesting, informed, thought-provoking, and often lively essays. It is hoped that this volume will mark a stage in an evolving study of this field and provoke new research in the future.
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Byzantium, a World Civilization
By Henry Maguire, Dumbarton Oaks, Angeliki E. LaiouAngeliki E. Láiou, Angelikē E. Laïu-Thōmadakē, Angeliki E. Laiou, Henry Maguire, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks. ture , remolding and reinterpreting this heritage within its own society .
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Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations
By Terence G. Young, Terence Young, Robert B. RileyYet the garden plans are developed from known elements of the Palace's eighteenthcentury state . 37 The Bodleian copper plate's elevated view of the Palace as well as archaeological findings show that Virginia colonists were not ...
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Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation
By Alice-Mary Maffry TalbotFrom nuns disguised as monks to desert harlots, these holy women exemplify some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium.
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Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204
By Henry MaguireThe imperial court in Constantinople is central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the court in its entirety as a phenomenon.
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The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World
By Angeliki E. Laiou, Angelikē E. Laïu-Thōmadakē, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E LaiouThe essays in this volume demonstrate that on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean there were rich, variegated, and important phenomena associated with the Crusades, and that a full understanding of the significance of the movement and ...