The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies examines the remarkable transformation...

Scholars have attended to aspects of sight and sound in Byzantine culture, but have generally lef...

The military achievements of the emperors Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes, and Basil II brought...

Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready a...

This authoritative commentary is the most comprehensive examination to date of the bilingual ridd...

The Philosopher, or On Faith is a literary recreation of the conversations between Mehmed II and ...

Garden as Art illuminates the stewardship of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, one of the most beautifu...

Making the East Latin analyzes the literary and rhetorical techniques of varied sources, revealin...

The Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks was prepared by Beatrix Farrand as a resource for those charged...

The Diagram as Paradigm explores medieval diagrams in Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the La...

Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called...

Originating as a doctoral dissertation and first published in 1926, Ernst Kris's The Rustic Style...

In Spearthrower Owl, David Stuart examines written evidence of the Teotihuacan ruler, focusing on...

The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, ar...

Five hundred years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, Mexico-Tenochtitlan looks anew at the city's r...

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of e...

Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the complex and shifting perceptio...

The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (El libro de los difuntos) is a Nahuatl-language death regi...

Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants popul...