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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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 ...
Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania
1st Edition
By Linda Paterson
June 06, 2019
Medieval Occitania, a geographical and linguistic area often referred to as 'the South of France', 'the South', 'the Midi', or more loosely 'Provence', was politically diverse but culturally coherent. It was here that the troubadours created Courtly Love and a new poetic language, which together ...
Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult
1st Edition
By Anne J. Duggan
June 06, 2019
Becket's life was lived on a European stage, his cause was conducted in a European setting, and the cult of the new martyr spread with extraordinary rapidity to the furthest reaches of Latin Christendom before the end of the twelfth century. The fifteen studies collected here reflect not only the ...
Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Domenico Sella
June 06, 2019
This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, the literature on the economics and society of northern Italy had hitherto dealt...
Music, Science, Philosophy: Models in the Universe of Thought
1st Edition
By Jamie C. Kassler
May 24, 2019
This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, science can find models from the technology and semantic field of music, music can find its models from the technology and semantic field of science, and each...
The canzone villanesca alla napolitana: Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts
1st Edition
By Donna G. Cardamone
May 07, 2019
The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published by Johannes de Colonia in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. The adjective villanesca (from ...
Doctrine and Philosophy in Early Christianity: Arius, Athanasius, Augustine
1st Edition
By Christopher Stead
April 29, 2019
The studies in this second collection by Professor Stead, which includes three pieces hitherto unpublished, investigate in detail the philosophical basis and legitimacy of important statements of early Christian doctrine, focusing on the writings of Arius, Athanasius and Augustine. Arius is shown ...