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Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice by Vera Tiesler 9780884024262
Booksplease Price: $68.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024262Author Vera TieslerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests - Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period by Gabrielle Vail
Booksplease Price: $46.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for John C. Ewers Award 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780884023463Author Gabrielle VailFormat HardbackPage... -
The Art of Urbanism - How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery by William L. Fash
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for John C. Ewers Award 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780884023784Author William L. FashFormat PaperbackPage... -
State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan by Ralph Townsend
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884020837Author Ralph TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library... -
Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica by David Grove 9780884022527
Booksplease Price: $23.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884022527Author David GroveFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library... -
Gardens, City Life and Culture - A World Tour by Michel Conan
Booksplease Price: $38.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023289Author Michel ConanFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library... -
Past Presented - Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas by Joanne Pillsbury
Booksplease Price: $61.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023807Author Joanne PillsburyFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Sign and Design - Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE) by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
RRP: $81.21Booksplease Price: $67.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024071Author Brigitte Miriam Bedos-RezakFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Dumbarton Oaks... -
The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University, Bulletin No. 1, 1940-1950 by Trustees of Harvard University 9781434433930
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434433930Author Trustees of Harvard UniversityFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wildside... -
Landscapes of Housing: Design and Planning in the History of Environmental Thought Jeanne Haffner (Dumbarton Oaks, USA) 9781138504400
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $46.80In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation. From the vantage point of contemporary architecture, conservation concerns and... -
The Culture of Cultivation: Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such... -
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body Sarah Schrank 9781138588691
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have... -
Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University, USA) 9780367231842
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in... -
The Eloquence of Art: Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire Andrea Olsen Lam 9781032236612
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his... -
Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today by Mira Engler
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.51Architects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice. Over the past decade, there has been a reinvigorated discussion... -
Josef Dobrovsky and the Origins of the Igor' Tale by Edward L. Keenan 9780916458966
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $45.29This controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, the Slovo o polku Igoreve (The Igor' Tale). Edward Keenan delves into the... -
Cultures & Nations of Central & Eastern Europe - Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk by Zvi Gitelman 9780916458935
Booksplease Price: $27.06Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine,... -
Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture Sonja Dumpelmann (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) 9780415745888
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume IV: The Major Prophetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation by Angela M. Kinney 9780674996694
Booksplease Price: $34.06This is the fourth volume of a projected six-volume Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume VI: The New Testament: Douay-Rheims Translation by Angela M. Kinney 9780674996700
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $34.91This volume completes the six-volume Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume V: The Minor Prophetical Books and Maccabees: Douay-Rheims Translation by Angela M. Kinney 9780674066359
Booksplease Price: $27.39This is the fifth volume of a projected six-volume Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume III: The Poetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation by Swift Edgar
Booksplease Price: $34.06This is the third volume of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation by Swift Edgar 9780674055346
Booksplease Price: $35.09The Vulgate Bible, compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century in... -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2 by Susanna Fein
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.72British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled... -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 3 by Susanna Fein
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.98British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled... -
The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 1 by Susanna Fein
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.72British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled... -
Miracle Tales from Byzantium by Alice-Mary Talbot 9780674059030
Booksplease Price: $33.41Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. Together, the... -
Rural Communities in Late Byzantium: Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean by Fotini Kondyli
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.09Late Byzantium faced economic, political, and demographic crises. This book argues for the ability of rural communities to transform their socioeconomic strategies and maintain resilience in the face... -
The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity by Joel Kalvesmaki 9780674073302
Booksplease Price: $22.30In the second century, Valentinians and other gnosticizing Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study of the... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume II: The Historical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation, Part A by Swift Edgar
Booksplease Price: $34.06This is the second volume, in two parts, of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible.Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the... -
The Organization of Ancient Economies: A Global Perspective by Kenneth Hirth
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $44.63In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their environments, not as... -
Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean by Anthi Andronikou
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $97.30In this volume Anthi Andronikou explores the social, cultural, religious and trade encounters between Italy and Cyprus during the late Middle Ages, from ca. 1200 -1400, and situates them within... -
Dante and Islam by Jan M. Ziolkowski 9780823263868
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $72.01Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been... -
Dante and Islam by Jan M. Ziolkowski
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.95Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been... -
Holy Men of Mount Athos by Richard P. H. Greenfield
Booksplease Price: $33.41Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of... -
Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 by Meaghan A. McEvoy 9780199664818
Booksplease Price: $145.32In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the frequently... -
The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images by Thomas Arentzen
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.26This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and... -
The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images by Thomas Arentzen 9781108476287
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $138.52This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and... -
Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi by Jyoti Pandey Sharma 9780367703745
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway... -
Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies Robin Norris 9781041179214
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.39Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past twenty years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the...