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The image of an Ottoman city imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries / by Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian

Subjects: “…Architecture, Ottoman Syria Aleppo.…”
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Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England by Myers, Anne M.

Table of Contents: “…Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture -- Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem -- Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow -- Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history -- Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries -- Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture -- Coda. …”
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The death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the life of Mexico City / by Mundy, Barbara E.

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English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550 : The Fabric of Piety / by Harris, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean), 1942-

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The Escorial art and power in the Renaissance / by Kamen, Henry

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Early modern cultures of translation /

Table of Contents: “…Translating the language of architecture /…”
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The monster in the garden : the Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance landscape design / by Morgan, Luke

“…Penn studies in landscape architecture.…”
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Castles and colonists an archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland / by Klingelhöfer, Eric C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Archaeology and Elizabeth's empire -- Elizabethan fortifications in Ireland -- Colonial settlement -- Vernacular architecture -- The archaeology of Kilcolman Castle -- Spenserian architecture in Ireland -- Conclusions.…”
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King the social archaeology of a late Mississippian town in northwestern Georgia / by Hally, David J.

Table of Contents: “…The nature of Mississippian society -- The natural, cultural, and historical context of the King Site -- Site excavations -- Domestic architecture -- Public architecture -- Burial descriptions -- Household and community -- Analysis of burial attribute associations -- Artifact co-occurrences -- Artifact co-occurrences among adult males -- Community and polity in northwestern Georgia -- Contents of accompanying compact disc: Appendix A: Description of primary domestic structures; Appendix B: Description of rectangular structures; Appendix C: Burial data; Appendix D: Stratigraphic characteristics of disturbed, intrusive, and multiple burials; Appendix E: Age and sex identification of burials; Appendix F: Burial assignment of grave goods in multiple and intrusive burials; Appendix G: Location of burials; Appendix H: Location of postholes and features.…”
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Participatory reading in late-medieval England / by Blatt, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media -- Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy Book -- Nonlinear reading: The Orcherd of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- Reading materially: John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for the coronation banquet of Henry VI' -- Reading architecturally: The wall texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St Paul's Cathedral -- Reading temporally: Thomas of Erceldoune's prophecy, Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the penitential Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy -- Conclusion: Nonreading in late-medieval England.…”
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