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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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 ...
Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Peregrine Horden
April 15, 2019
The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provision from their origins in Late Antiquity to their medieval flourishing in Byzantium and the Islamic lands as well as in western Europe. ...
Bishops, Saints, and Historians: Studies in the Ecclesiastical History of Medieval Britain and Italy
1st Edition
By Robert Brentano, edited by William L. North
February 04, 2019
Throughout his career, Robert Brentano attempted to understand the nature and 'style' of ecclesiastical institutions in Italy and the British Isles, the specific qualities of saints and the communities that formed around them, and the ways in which seemingly cryptic archival remains of medieval ...
Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India
1st Edition
By Peter Jackson
January 14, 2019
The first section of this volume brings together five studies on the Mongol empire. The accent is on the ideology behind Mongol expansion, on the dissolution of the empire into a number of rival khanates, and on the relations between the Mongol regimes and their Christian subjects within and ...
Before and After Darwin: Origins, Species, Cosmogonies, and Ontologies
1st Edition
By M.J.S. Hodge
January 11, 2019
This is the first 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 in this volume is on the diversity of theories ...
Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine
1st Edition
By Paul E. Walker
January 11, 2019
The thirteen studies in this volume explore critical problems in Fatimid history and historiography, many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty both within the empire and outside....
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World: Images and Cultures
1st Edition
By Anthony Cutler
January 11, 2019
Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention to art historical relations as shown by technical, iconographic and diplomatic exchanges. While addressed to specialists, both their approach and ...