Online Publications
Selected Dumbarton Oaks publications are available on the web in an effort to increase access to the material. The full text and illustrations are accessed with Acrobat Reader. Single copies may be printed for individual use. For multiple copies used as classroom reading assignments please inquire about our permission fee structure at DoaksBooks@doaks.org. Your comments on this series of electronic texts are also welcome at the same email address.
Annual Reports and General Publications
Dumbarton Oaks, 2008–2010
Angeliki Laiou, 1941–2008
Dumbarton Oaks, 2006–2008
Dumbarton Oaks, 2003–2004
Dumbarton Oaks, 2001–2003
Dumbarton Oaks, 1989–2001
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Brief introduction to the scholarly activities, collections, and gardens.
Byzantine Studies
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 57 (2003)
Byzantine Pilgrimage Art
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 56 (2002)
Byzantine Garden Culture
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 55 (2001)
The Economic History of Byzantium
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 54 (2000)
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 53 (1999)
The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World
The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion: An Eleventh-Century Pillar Saint
Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by "Heron of Byzantium"
Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents
Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation
Byzantine Coinage
Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: The Fossati Restoration and the Work of the Byzantine Institute
Byzantine Magic
Garden and Landscape Studies
Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion
Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations
Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art 1550-1850
Byzantine Garden Culture
Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture
Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks
Garden Ornament at Dumbarton Oaks
Perspectives on Garden Histories
John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening
Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century
Twenty-Five Years of Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks: From Italian Gardens to Theme Parks
Pre-Columbian Studies
Archaeological Illustration in the Americas
Palaces of the Ancient New World, © 2004
Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks
Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
Archaeology of Formative Ecuador
Gender in Pre-Hispanic America
Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec
The Cult of the Feline
Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama: On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in the Central Province
The Burial Theme in Moche Iconography
Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks
Native Traditions in the Postconquest World
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