The Oaks News

House Book at Casa Dorinda

James N. Carder (December 2017)

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Naming Stones

Dumbarton Oaks acquires 18th-century Japanese garden scroll

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Rebuilding Jerusalem

Gideon Avni researches around destruction

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The Public and the Poplars

Romy Hecht unearths the history of landscape design in Santiago, Chile

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Autumn Leaves and Mums

James N. Carder (November 2017)

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Much Ado about Moche

Dumbarton Oaks’ collection of fineline drawings moves online

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Laws of the New Empire

Paolo Angelini limns the legal history of medieval Slavs

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Difference and Home

Jerry Moore investigates domestic architecture in ancient South America

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Reissue of Byzantium and the Arabs

Irfan Shahîd’s history of the Arab’s interactions with Rome and Byzantium before the rise of Islam is available for download

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Unexpected Finds

James N. Carder (October 2017)

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Dumbarton Oaks – First Postcards, 1945

James N. Carder (September 2017)

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Excerpting the Past

Laura Pfuntner investigates hermaphrodites in Byzantine and ancient texts

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The Benton Gospels

Dumbarton Oaks Museum acquires rare Greek manuscript

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The Treatises of Melchior Guilandino

Dumbarton Oaks acquires sixteenth-century botanical texts

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Dumbarton Oaks at Kalamazoo

Paper proposals for four sponsored sessions at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies due September 15

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Rethinking Empire

The 2017 Byzantine Studies symposium

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Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities

The 2017 Garden and Landscape Studies symposium

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New Acquisition: Le Temple du Soleil

James N. Carder (August 2017)

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New Acquisition: Loire Valley Poster

James N. Carder (July 2017)

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The Records of Life

Dumbarton Oaks acquires colonial Latin American manuscripts

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Celil Refik Kaya

Third recipient of Early-Career Musician Residency

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In Praise of Everyone

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library adds two new volumes

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Jan Ziolkowski Elected to the American Philosophical Society

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Dumbarton Oaks Newsletters

James N. Carder (June 2017)

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Esclarmonde – Byzantine Empress and Sorceress

James N. Carder (May 2017)

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Grammars of the Former World

Rare Book Collection acquires Andreas Sennert’s seventeenth-century lexicographical studies

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On Mysticism and Materiality

Visiting Scholar Racha Kirakosian examines the fabric of medieval mysticism

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Lights in the Dark

Paul Magdalino delivers public lecture in Byzantine Studies

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The Tastes of Youth

Hartmut Troll traces the development of Germany’s first “English” gardener

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The Gardens Online

Abbey Stockstill adds to web-based garden research tool

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