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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Humanism and Renaissance Civilization
1st Edition
By Charles G. Nauert
December 19, 2018
The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps. Much of the early work involved the significant but often-overlooked history of humanism at the ...
Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages: Confrontation and Response
1st Edition
By Kenneth Stow
December 19, 2018
The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe. Papal consistency, sometimes sorely tried, in observing the canons and the principles announced by St Paul - that Jews were to be a ...
Studies in English Church Music, 1550-1900
1st Edition
By Nicholas Temperley
December 19, 2018
Nicholas Temperley has pioneered the history of popular church music in England, as expounded in his classic 1979 study, The Music of the English Parish Church; his Hymn Tune Index of 1998; and his magisterial articles in The New Grove. This volume brings together fourteen shorter essays from ...
Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings
1st Edition
By Anne Hudson
December 19, 2018
Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe; that upheaval affected theological, ecclesiastical and political developments from the late 14th to the early 16th centuries. Some of those ideas were transmitted orally through ...
The Byzantine Aristocracy and its Military Function
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Cheynet
December 19, 2018
The first four studies in this volume by Jean-Claude Cheynet, specially translated from French for publication here, present a broad-ranging analysis of the Byzantine aristocracy of the 8th-12th centuries. Along with the other articles in the first part, they examine the evolution of aristocratic ...
The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress
1st Edition
By Bruce M.S. Campbell
December 19, 2018
Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture. The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view. Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, ...
The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500-1700
1st Edition
By A.R. Disney
December 19, 2018
The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first, 'The Portuguese in India', includes pieces...
Trade, Money, and Power in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Pamela Nightingale
December 19, 2018
The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting. In time, they range from the late Anglo-Saxon period up to the advent of the ...
Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy
1st Edition
By Roger E. Reynolds
November 21, 2018
Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely ...
Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa: Studies in Aramaic Epigraphy on the Roman Frontier
1st Edition
By John Healey
October 18, 2018
The thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of ...
Ming Taizu (r. 1368–98) and the Foundation of the Ming Dynasty in China
1st Edition
By Hok-lam Chan
October 18, 2018
This second collection of studies by Hok-lam Chan focuses on the person and the image of Ming Taizu, the founder of the Ming dynasty, and a powerful, brutal and autocratic emperor who has had a significant impact not only in late imperial China, but also in East Asia, over the last six centuries. ...
The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Martin J.S. Rudwick
October 18, 2018
The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted ...