Variorum Collected Studies
About the Book Series
The first title in the Variorum Collected Studies series was published in 1970. Since then over 1000 titles have appeared in the series, and it has established a well-earned international reputation for the publication of key research across a whole range of subjects within the fields of history. The history of the medieval world remains central to the series, with Byzantine studies a particular speciality. Other major strands include Islamic studies and the histories of philosophy, science and medicine.
Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. These studies are reprinted from a vast range of learned journals, Festschrifts and conference proceedings. They are an essential resource making available research that is scattered or inaccessible in all but the most specialized libraries.
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Studies on the Reception of Plato and Greek Political Thought in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
By Kyriakos Demetriou
June 10, 2019
This collection of essays focuses on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in the work of some major (pre)Victorian classical scholars and expands on a remarkable range of hotly debated issues on the interpretation of Greek antiquity. The central figure in this volume is the radical ...
Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects: Central Europe and Beyond
1st Edition
By János M. Bak, edited by Balázs Nagy
June 10, 2019
This selection of articles, published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at Göttingen, opens with studies on his teacher, Percy Ernst Schramm, and his contribution to the study of the medieval state and continues with examples of state symbology from Central Europe. Questions of ...
Syriac Christianity under Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Rule
1st Edition
By G.J. Reinink
June 10, 2019
The articles in this volume are concerned with the literary responses of the Syriac communities in the Middle East to the drastic political changes of the 7th and 8th centuries, in particular the Persian occupation of the eastern provinces of Byzantium under Khusrau II, and the Islamic conquests ...
The Fathers and Beyond: Church Fathers between Ancient and Medieval Thought
1st Edition
By Marcia L. Colish
June 10, 2019
The papers in this second selection of articles by Professor Colish focus on thinkers of the patristic age, and relate to her three monographic studies in this area published over the last two decades. At the same time these papers look beyond the patristic period, both backward to these authors' ...
Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology
1st Edition
By Joan-Pau Rubiés
June 10, 2019
Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of ...
Words and Music in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Nigel Wilkins
June 10, 2019
This selection of nineteen essays by Nigel Wilkins, in English and in French, is characterised by an inter-disciplinary approach crossing the borders between music, language, literature, history, palaeography and iconography. The principal topic is lyric poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth ...
Workers, Women, and Social Change in Poland, 1870–1939
1st Edition
By Anna Zarnowska
June 10, 2019
The studies collected here deal with social and cultural changes in Polish lands during the early phases of industrialisation, i.e. the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention is first given to the stabilisation of urban agglomerations and workers' communities, and the accompanying ...
Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers: British Enterprise and Encounters in the Pacific, 1670-1800
1st Edition
By Glyndwr Williams
June 07, 2019
Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their ...
Chant grégorien et musique médiévale
1st Edition
By Michel Huglo
June 07, 2019
This is the third in a set of four collections of articles by Michel Huglo to be published in the Variorum series. It brings together the studies of Gregorian chant and of later monophonic and polyphonic additions to the earlier repertory that occupied Huglo in the second phase of his research. ...
Composers and their Songs, 1400–1521
1st Edition
By David Fallows
June 07, 2019
This second selection of essays by David Fallows draws the focus towards individual composers of the 'long' fifteenth century and what we can learn about their songs. In twenty-one essays on the secular works of composers from Ciconia and Oswald von Wolkenstein via Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys and ...
Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East
1st Edition
By Jonathan Riley-Smith
June 07, 2019
The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific focus of the third section here. Out of this grew the concerns covered in the previous sections: an interest in the political and constitutional history...
Darwin Studies: A Theorist and his Theories in their Contexts
1st Edition
By M.J.S. Hodge
June 07, 2019
This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus here is on Darwin himself and the development ...