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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Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art
1st Edition
By Henry Maguire
January 11, 2019
The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. They show how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible ...
Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Margaret Mullett
January 11, 2019
These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical...
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
1st Edition
By Amnon Shiloah
January 11, 2019
A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. In addition, such works verbalize an art that was transmitted orally and took shape spontaneously, typically with ...
The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete
1st Edition
By Maria Vassilaki
January 11, 2019
The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the 15th century and especially on the painter ...
The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Craig Kallendorf
January 11, 2019
The essays in this collection approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading. The first group of essays uses Virgil's place in post-classical ...
Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib
1st Edition
By Julio Samsó
January 03, 2019
This new volume of papers by Julio Samsó deals with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries. Opening with a survey of the social history of the exact sciences in al-Andalus, the book then looks at astronomical tables: the ...
Barbarians, Maps, and Historiography: Studies on the Early Medieval West
1st Edition
By Walter Goffart
January 03, 2019
To complement his first collection of articles (Rome's Fall and After, 1989), Walter Goffart presents here a further set of essays, all but two published between 1988 and 2007. They mainly focus on two types of historiography: early medieval narratives, with special attention to Bede's Historia ...
Brittany in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Societies
1st Edition
By Wendy Davies
January 03, 2019
This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of ...
Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy
1st Edition
By Alessia Rovelli
January 03, 2019
The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English. The articles in the first section of the volume trace the development of monetisation in Italy from the Lombard period until the rise of the communes, ...
Comparative Studies in Modern European History: Nation, Nationalism, Social Change
1st Edition
By Miroslav Hroch
January 03, 2019
The two main themes of this selection of articles by Professor Hroch are the process of nation formation during the 19th century, especially in the case of 'smaller' European nations, i.e. those without statehood, and the social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern, feudal and...
Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History
1st Edition
By Paul W. Kroll
January 03, 2019
This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po). Collecting eleven essays by this leading scholar of Chinese poetry, the volume presents a selection of studies devoted to the medieval period, centering especially on the T'ang ...
Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern
1st Edition
By N.A.M. Rodger
January 03, 2019
The articles collected here (two appearing for the first time in English) cover a number of topics central to naval history and illustrate the author's contention that this is not only, or even chiefly, a distinct area of special study, but rather a central theme running through the history of ...