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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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 ...
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 ...






