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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Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Richard Newhauser
June 10, 2019
Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality in the Latin West. The emphasis in these studies is on the malleability of moral categories, their ...
Society and Culture in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By David Cressy
June 10, 2019
The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces a development in historical style and method...
Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Nicolas Oikonomides, Elizabeth Zachariadou
June 10, 2019
Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium is the fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Its focus is upon the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period, though several studies deal with a...
Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics
1st Edition
By J.L. Mancha
June 10, 2019
In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers. The articles deal with Latin, Hebrew and Arabic texts, and the process of translation and transmission of ...
Studies in Renaissance Grammar
1st Edition
By W. Keith Percival
June 10, 2019
To what extent can one speak of 'the Renaissance' in terms of grammar: did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance unchanged or was it transformed by the pedagogical programme of the humanists? The studies collected here focus on this question and trace the ...
Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics: Florence and Arezzo
1st Edition
By Robert Black
June 10, 2019
The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black's research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at its origins, and the concept of the Renaissance as well as the theory and practice of historical ...
Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy
1st Edition
By John Parascandola
June 10, 2019
An acknowledged expert on the history of modern pharmacology and drug therapy, John Parascandola here brings together 19 of his most important papers on these subjects. The book is divided into three topical sections. In the first group of articles, devoted to pharmacological theory, Dr. ...
Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century
1st Edition
By Stanley Boorman
June 10, 2019
The emergence of music printing and publishing in the early 16th century radically changed how music was circulated, and how the musical source (printed or manuscript) was perceived, and used in performance. This series of close studies of the structure and content of 16th-century and early ...
Studies on Ancient Christianity
1st Edition
By Henry Chadwick
June 10, 2019
This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together a series of studies on Augustine, written in light of the new texts now available, and on other individual Christian authors of antiquity, in other words of the age when Christianity was acquiring its now familiar shape. A number ...
Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th–18th Centuries
1st Edition
By Rhoads Murphey
June 10, 2019
The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace on the one hand, to notions of domesticity ...
Studies on the Formation of Christian Armenia
1st Edition
By Nina G. Garsoïan
June 10, 2019
This is the third collection of articles by Nina Garsoïan on Early Armenian history and civilization. A number of articles included here continue earlier investigations of Iranian and Byzantine political and, especially, doctrinal and social influences on Medieval Armenia, precariously wedged ...
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 ...