The book is based on papers presented at a symposium of the same name held at
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, in May 2016.
The
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML), which was launched in 2010 and now runs to almost forty volumes, aims to provide accessible dual-language, facing-page translations of Byzantine Greek, Medieval Latin, and Old English texts, with limited commentary.
A Conference al
Dumbarton Oaks, Octuber 14 th and 15 th, 1978, editado por E.H.
focused a 2003
Dumbarton Oaks reading group on it, leading to this fine publication.
The signs are everywhere, from the town of Alexandria, where Carlyle House is maintained in homage to Scottish merchant John Carlyle, to the lavish gardens of
Dumbarton Oaks in DC.
Further south, the National Gallery in Washington is showing seven paintings from its own collection, plus others from
Dumbarton Oaks, the Phillips Collection and Baltimore's Walters Art Museum (2 November-16 February 2015).
On August 21, 1944, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations.