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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Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition
1st Edition
By Menso Folkerts
June 07, 2019
This book deals with the mathematics of the medieval West between ca. 500 and 1100, the period before the translations from Arabic and Greek had their impact. Four of the studies appear for the first time in English. Among the topics treated are: the Roman surveyors (agrimensores); recreational ...
Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance
1st Edition
By Margaret L. King
June 07, 2019
Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L. King's distinct but interlocking scholarly interests: humanism and Venice; women and humanism; and women of the Italian Renaissance. The first part focuses on defining the key ...
Interpretation and Jurisprudence in Medieval Islam
1st Edition
By Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi
June 07, 2019
At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. This was largely focused on his monograph, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (Oxford, 1993), which boldly challenged existing theories about the origins of Islamic Law....
Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Abitbol, Nehemia Levtzion, Amos Nadan
June 07, 2019
This second volume of studies by the late Nehemia Levtzion pursues the themes covered in his previous collection, Islam in West Africa; it also maintains a particular interest in the history of Africa while including broader chronological and geographic perspectives. It includes four new papers, ...
Manors and Maps in Rural England, from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth
1st Edition
By P.D.A. Harvey
June 07, 2019
P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. It first looks at the English countryside from the 10th century to the 15th, investigating problems in particular documents, ...
Music and Musicians in 16th-Century Florence
1st Edition
By Frank A. D’Accone
June 07, 2019
This second selection of studies by Frank D’Accone, again based principally on the documentary evidence, follows the development through the mid 16th century of musical chapels at the Cathedral and the Baptistery of Florence and of musical establishments at the Santissima Annunziata and San Lorenzo...
Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany: Studies in Cultural, Social and Economic History
1st Edition
By Michael Toch
June 07, 2019
The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles engage the day-to-day workings of rural society: literature, verbal attack and the language of mediated settlement of conflicts lead to a nuanced view ...
Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
1st Edition
By G.E.R. Lloyd
June 07, 2019
From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide range of problems in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, focussing especially on science but including ...
Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice
1st Edition
By Patricia H. Labalme
June 07, 2019
This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999, they deal with the intellectual, social and religious life of Venice in the 15th-16th centuries. An important focus is the exploration of...
Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds
1st Edition
By Paul Kunitzsch
June 07, 2019
The studies brought together in this second collection of articles by Paul Kunitzsch continue the lines of research evident in his previous volume (The Arabs and the Stars). The Arabic materials discussed stem mostly from the early period of the development of Arabic-Islamic astronomy up to about ...
The Crusades, The Kingdom of Sicily, and the Mediterranean
1st Edition
By James M. Powell
June 07, 2019
In this collection of studies by James M. Powell, two related centres of attention can be seen. One is the campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean, chiefly in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries - the Crusades - the reasons for them and manner in which they were...
Word, Image and Experience: Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul
1st Edition
By Giselle de Nie
June 07, 2019
Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.604), in later life bishop of Poitiers, Dr de Nie gives in these innovative studies a new understanding of the miracle stories around which much of their writing revolves, but whose ...