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The Life of Patriarch Ignatius

The Life of Patriarch Ignatius offers a fascinating, if biased, look into the complex world of the interplay between competing church factions, the imperial ...

Past Presented

This volume, a collection of fourteen essays addressing the visual presentation of the Pre-Columbian past from the fifteenth century to the present day, ...

Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks

Based on the comprehensive study of one of the most important collections of Maya art in the United States, Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks is a scholarly ...

How to Defeat the Saracens

William of Adam’s plan to retake the Holy Land—one of several produced after the fall of Acre in 1291—reveals his extensive travels in the eastern ...

Dumbarton Oaks

This guide, published one year before the death of Mildred Bliss, is representative of the gardens at the close of nearly a half-century of creative activity.

Interlacing Words and Things

Contributors to this volume consider the relationship between language and the natural world, as it has been mediated in different cultures and at different ...

Trade and Markets in Byzantium

Authors address questions of trade and markets in antiquity and the Middle Ages by reexamining and reinterpreting the material and textual record from ...

De Administrando Imperio

This commentary remains the most thorough and authoritative study of the De Administrando Imperio, and includes extensive commentary on the historical, ...

Their Way of Writing

The contributors consider substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing systems in the ancient America, and present the latest thinking ...

Twin Tollans

This volume shows, through use of archaeological, art historical, anthropological, epigraphical, and ethnohistorical methods, how the “twin cities” of Chichén ...