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Close out 2018 with #books! Only 1 week left to get 15% off classic @DumbartonOaks paperbacks, like THE LIFE OF LAZAROS OF MT. GALESION, translated into English for the first time by Richard P. H. Greenfield (@queenshistory). Use code HOLIDAY15 at https://t.co/JM7Cziysyq.
Cabarets, luxuries...& #medievalism? Why were #BelleÉpoque France & #FinDeSiècle #Paris crazy for #medieval books, art, #WorldsFair sights, & more?
Find out at 2 exciting talks this week in #DC!
WEDNESDAY: https://t.co/A6ALefJqFW
THURSDAY: https://t.co/LQ3wAWyuOy
@FreeinDCBlog
Recent #PhD grad who missed our #fellowships deadline? Apply by Dec 15 for a 2-year @MellonFdn #postdoctoral position! The #Plant #Humanities #postdoc will work with @JSTOR, #digitalhumanities, #rarebooks, #archives, #historyofscience, & #garden studies.
https://t.co/POR0GnCzbB
A tale of #war, #trade, #addiction...& #tea? Help us share the hidden #history of #plants through #digitalhumanities. Apply to our Plant #Humanities #Fellowships (with @JSTOR/@MellonFdn).
Due today, Dec 1!
https://t.co/RQlgpkSF8u
#histsci #histmed #landscapearchitecture #empire
"Just as #plants travel across continents, often with human beings following in their wake, so their impact on civilization crosses disciplinary boundaries."
Read the #ScientificAmerican article by our Exec. Director Yota Batsaki & @JSTOR's @abhumphreys: https://t.co/9hBwsrnSJ6.
Here's a #closeup of an Early #Byzantine #textile featuring #lions & #horses, in a fashion known from #Persia. Some motifs are native Coptic, but analysis of a related @MuseeLouvre piece suggests Persian origin. Read more: https://t.co/3uKCSXJ7sa.
#Caturday #6thcentury #textiles
On International Day for #Tolerance, we celebrate the #UnitedNations Club, inaugurated here in 1942. Garden parties @DumbartonOaks (pictured), seminars, dances, & more helped build connections between citizens of allied nations. Learn more: https://t.co/2CiwKTbyZm.
#ToleranceDay
Make merry in #medievalist style this Nov 15! Enjoy winter drinks plus discounted #shopping at Evenings at @DumbartonOaks.
Tickets include #free snacks, live #juggling, & after-hours access to #JugglingtheMiddleAges galleries: https://t.co/JtQOcVVoeO.
📷: Postcard by Malatesta.
Indigenous people of the #Andes used this plant (which Europeans named "cinchona") medicinally. As a result of imperialism, cinchona spread globally -- the only effective malaria treatment until the 1930s. Today we call its active ingredient quinine. #WellnessWednesday #RareBooks
Eccentric Flint, #Maya, Late Classic, 600-700 CE
Three heads emerge from this eccentric flint. They each wear a serrated headdress and a flaming torch or axe protruding from their forehead, a characteristic of the god K'awiil, the personification of lightning.
#PreColumbian