dumbarton oaks research library and collection washington dc (207 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. viii, 8pp colour plates, 162pp with numerous in-text black and white photographs. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VG-/VG-. Small brown stain on top. Springing boards. Jacket has a scuff and a 8mm closed tear at top of front panel. 298pp. Book.

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series: Studies in pre-Columbian art & archaeology ; no. 31. Physical description: vii, 72 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Maya art; Mayas Antiquitie; Acanceh Site (Mexico); Acanceh Stuckpalast; Relief sculptures; Mexico Ancient Civilizations. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the middle Byzantine period, containing a wide variety of information on foreign relations and internal administration. The critical text of the De Administrando Imperio, edited by Gyula Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins (Dumbarton Oaks Texts), is now joined by the commentary, written in 1962 by a team of eminent scholars led by Jenkins. Long out of print, the Jenkins commentary remains the most thorough and authoritative study of this significant medieval text, and it is now republished as a companion volume to the critical text and translation. In addition to extensive commentary on the historical, geographical, and philological nuances of the Greek text, this volume contains a bibliography, map, indexes, and genealogical charts. The De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the middle Byzantine period, containing information on foreign relations and internal administration. Long out of print, this most authoritative study of the text is once again available. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in Byzantine narrative histories. Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis Sullivan, with the assistance of George T. Dennis and Stamatina McGrath, include an extensive introduction and detailed notes to guide the reader through the complex chronology, geography, and text of the History. Also included are five maps, two genealogical tables, and four indexes. Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in Byzantine narrative histories. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 162 pages. Profusely illustrated. Fine condition. (Q5).

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 18cm), [vii], 324pp. Numerous b&w illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, no dustwrapper. This copy is in very good condition. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the history of landscape architecture, volume XI. ISBN 0884021785.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Large 8vo, paperback. Vg+ condition. Bright, crisp & clean, unread; staples binding spine slightly discolored from storage. 18 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A gulf of centuries separates the Byzantine Empire from the academic field of Byzantine studies. This book offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship, focusing on the attraction that Byzantium held for Early Modern Europeans and challenging the stereotype that they dismissed the Byzantine Empire as an object of contempt.The authors in this book focus on how and why the Byzantine past was used in Early Modern Europe: to diagnose cultural decline, to excavate the beliefs and practices of early Christians, to defend absolutism or denounce tyranny, and to write strategic ethnography against the Ottomans. By tracing Byzantium's profound impact on everything from politics to painting, this book shows that the empire and its legacy remained relevant to generations of Western writers, artists, statesmen, and intellectuals as they grappled with the most pressing issues of their day.Refuting reductive narratives of absence or progress, this book shows how "Byzantium" underwent multiple overlapping and often discordant reinventions before the institutionalization of "Byzantine studies" as an academic discipline. As this book suggests, it was precisely Byzantium's ambiguity-as both Greek and Roman, ancient and medieval, familiar and foreign-that made it such a vibrant and vital part of the Early Modern European imagination. The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship. By tracing Byzantiums impact on everything from politics to painting, this book shows that the empire and its legacy remained relevant to generations of Western writers, artists, statesmen, and intellectuals. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in green cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine and front; small edge rub. Internally very good; bookplate to paste down; copiously illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, tan cloth. NEW. Still in shrinkwrap -- never opened, never used. 186 p., illus., 8 p. of plates (some color).

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Christians had always been concerned, since the faith's inception, about the relationship between violence and belief. In Byzantium, this tension was explored not only in abstract theological texts but in the songs people sang: hymns, a multivalent, fluid form of devotion that served as the meeting place between theological conviction and lived religious experience. Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the complex and shifting perceptions of premodern Christians toward violence and war through the lens of hymnography. This book argues that the liturgical reflection on violence in Byzantium underwent a profound transformation-a sacralization of violence-at approximately the same time that Persian and then Arab armies conquered Jerusalem in the early seventh century, a turn that persisted into the tenth century. By focusing on hymnography, George E. Demacopoulos provides both correction and nuance to historical assessments of Eastern Christian attitudes toward war and violence and reveals how Byzantine culture dramatized, authorized, and even celebrated violence. Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the complex and shifting perceptions of premodern Christians toward violence and war through the lens of hymnography, with a profound transformation in the early seventh century. Demacopoulos reveals how Byzantine culture dramatized, authorized, and even celebrated violence. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (El libro de los difuntos) is a Nahuatl-language death registry maintained by the Indigenous people of Huexotzinco, Mexico, between 1619 and 1640. On its fragile vellum pages are the names of over twenty-five hundred Indigenous men, women, and children who succumbed to the waves of epidemic disease that followed the Spanish invasion and conquest of Mexico. The registry was created during a "golden age" of Nahuatl record-keeping, when the Nahua were integrated enough into colonial systems to meet the administrative demands of the Spanish Church, yet still rooted in their own cultural traditions, recording deaths in Nahuatl with classifications that reflected their own cultural understanding of death and memory. By transcribing and translating the registry for the first time, this work offers a rare, intimate look at life and death in a colonial Nahua community (altepetl) during the devastating epidemics of seventeenth-century Mexico. The fragile vellum pages of The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (El libro de los difuntos) contain a Nahuatl-language registry of over twenty-five hundred Indigenous people who succumbed epidemic diseases that followed the Spanish conquest of Mexico. This first translation of the text provides an intimate look at a colonial Nahua community. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: New. Large 8vo, paperback. NEW. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. 75 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Large 8vo, hardcover. Blue cloth, no dj, as issued. NEW. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. viii, 373 p., illus.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The thirteenth-century emperor Theodore II Laskaris, ruler of the Empire of Nicaea, is among those versatile authors of the Byzantine era who produced numerous little-known gems of literature and thought. He composed the sole theoretical work on friendship surviving from Byzantium, wrote philosophy with verve and humor, and was perhaps the most passionate advocate of the idea of a communal Hellenic identity in the Middle Ages. Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court represents the first translation into English of eight works by Laskaris. An introduction and annotations to the translations orient the reader and contextualize these fascinating pieces. The selections themselves include a satire of his tutor, his oration on friendship and politics, his oration on Hellenism, and philosophical works and musings such as a treatise filled with Socratic irony. They represent the most prominent strands of Laskaris's thought and provide the reader with a well-rounded portrait of this remarkable author. Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satire of his tutor, his oration on friendship and politics, and philosophical works and musings such as a treatise filled with Socratic irony. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. vii, 72, [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps. Series: Studies in pre-Columbian art & archaeology ; no. 31. 260 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: New. hardcover. NEW in dust jacket. Still in shrinkwrap -- never opened, never read. xix, 143 p.

Paperback. Condition: New. Large 8vo, paperback. NEW. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. 46 pp.

Paperback. Condition: New. Large 8vo, paperback. NEW. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. vii, 103 p., illus.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 4to, hardcover. NEW in dust jacket. Still in shrinkwrap -- never opened, never used. xxxii, 149 p., illus., 85 p. of plates.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, attractive copy, near fine large green cloth, appears essentially unused. O'MALLEY, THERESE / WOLSCHKE-BULMAHN, JOACHIM, ed. . John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European gardening edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998, vii, 310pp., . Many black and white illustrations. - Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 17. - "John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. He left an immensely rich literary heritage, which is of great significance for scholars interested in garden history and the histories of intellectual life and architecture." "Evelyn is perhaps best known for Sylva, a compilation of thoughts on practical estate management, gardening, and philosophy, and the first book published by the Royal Society in London. "Elysium Britannicum," Evelyn's unpublished manuscript of almost a thousand pages of densely packed drafts, rewrites, and projects, was perhaps something of an enigma to his contemporaries, who nevertheless urged its publication." "The contributors to this volume approach Evelyn and his work from diverse disciplines, including architectural and intellectual history and the histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present a rich picture of the "Elysium Britannicum" as one of the central documents of late European humanism." - CONTENTS: Foreword / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Introduction to John Evelyn and the "Elysium Britannicum" / Therese O'Malley -- John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" : provenance, condition, transcription / John E. Ingram -- John Evelyn : between the ancients and the moderns / Joseph M. Levine -- John Evelyn in the 1650s : a virtuoso in quest of a role / Michael Hunter -- "Elysium Britannicum not printed neere ready & c" : the "Elysium Britannicum" in the correspondence of John Evelyn / Douglas Chambers -- "Bringing ingenuity into fashion" : the "Elysium Britannicum" and the reformation of husbandry / Michael Leslie -- John Evelyn and English architecture / Alice T. Friedman -- Parterre, grove, and flower garden : European horticulture and planting design in John Evelyn's time / Mark Laird -- The plants in John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" / John H. Harvey -- Evelyn's idea of the garden : a theory for all seasons / John Dixon Hunt -- Appendix: A plan by John Evelyn for Henry Howard's garden at Albury Park, Surrey / Michael Charlesworth -- Biographies of the authors. 9780884022404 ISBN 0884022404 53.50.

Hardcover. viii, 373p., preface, index, footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies, illustrated throughout text with figures, photos, plans etc, very good first edition in blue cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: New. . . . . 4to, hardcover. Green cloth, no dj, as issued. NEW. Still in shrinkwrap - never opened, never read. 229 pp., illus. Includes papers from a symposium on the Byzantine family and household.

Hardcover. Condition: New. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. NEW in dust jacket. Still in shrinkwrap -- never opened, never read. xiv, 207 p., illus. w/ music.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 4to, hardcover. No dj, green cloth. NEW. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. 200 pp., b&w plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. ix, 145 p., [66] p. of plates : ill. Series: Studies in pre-Columbian art & archaeology ; no. 28. Edgewear to paper wrappers, sunning to spine and to adjacent portions of front and rear panels, previous owner's name to head of front panel, short (1/2") tear to rear panel repaired with tape; notes in pencil passim else contents very good. 690 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Guarani-Jesuit communities of greater Paraguay, in existence from 1609 until 1767, represent a unique collaboration between Indigenous and European peoples in the history of the Americas. Reports of these communities were met with fascination in Europe, as readers saw in them an opportunity to build a new political system from the ground up, one unencumbered by the entrenched norms that stymied reform in Europe. European intellectuals mythologized these communities, employing ancient Greek paradigms to characterize-and caricature-them within the context of a broader ideological conflation of antiquity and the Americas. Josep Manuel Peramas's De Administratione Guaranica Comparate ad Rempublicam Platonis Commentarius (A Commentary on the Guarani System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793) emerges as a response to this European intellectual tradition. Written by a leading humanist scholar who lived among the Guarani, the treatise offers a systems-level analysis of how the Guarani-Jesuit communities were structured, interrogating formative aspects of the civic experience, such as weddings, public festivals, clothing, and political offices. In making this fascinating Latin treatise available in English for the first time, this bilingual edition offers new perspectives on the Guarani and new avenues for exploring the complex legacy of classical literature in the Americas. Josep Manuel Peramass A Treatise on the Guarani System of Government in Comparison with Platos Republic, 1793 analyzes Guarani-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public festivals, and political offices. This bilingual Latin and English edition offers new perspectives on the Guarani and literature in the Americas. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

1st Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Physical description: xv, 125 pages, 74 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 29 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-118) and index. Subjects: Louis XIV, King of France 1638-1715 Palaces France Versailles History. Versailles (Palace and gardens) (Versailles, France). Gardens, French France Versailles History. Art, Baroque France Versailles History. Landscapes. Sculpture. Garden Design - [17th Century - France]. Sculpture - [18th Century - France]. Architecture - Royal Palaces - [17th Century - France]. Art Patronage - [17th Century]. Landscape Architecture. Royal gardens. Horticulture. Genre: Illustrated. History. 2 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. [8], 436 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The essays "examine commemorative sites of different character, including gardens, landscapes, memorials, cemeteries, and sites of former Nazi concentration camps." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: cocked; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.