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.
Reports of activities and research:
- 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
- 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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