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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Concord and Reform: Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century
1st Edition
By Morimichi Watanabe, Thomas M. Izbicki
September 27, 2018
Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays in this book analyse his legal and political ideas against the background of medieval religious, ...
Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy
1st Edition
By Stephen Kolsky
September 27, 2018
The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent ...
Dubrovnik: A Mediterranean Urban Society, 1300–1600
1st Edition
By Barisa Krekic
September 27, 2018
This second volume of the author’s studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially translated from Serbo-Croat. The first part deals with aspects of daily life in this Mediterranean city, including analyses of the differing attitudes...
Early Islamic Art, 650–1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
September 27, 2018
Early Islamic Art, 650-1100 is the first in a set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three subsequent volumes being entitled...
Fortification and Settlement in Crusader Palestine
1st Edition
By Denys Pringle
September 27, 2018
These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Frankish settlement was largely confined to the fortified urban centres and castles, with few westerners venturing into the open countryside, has come to be ...
From Kavad to al-Ghazali: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600–c.1100
1st Edition
By Patricia Crone
September 27, 2018
This volume brings together twelve articles by Patricia Crone dealing with pre-Islamic and Islamic religion, law and political thought. The first section focuses on the centuries before Islam, with studies on Mazdakism in Iran and on Islam as the key factor behind the outbreak of Iconoclasm in ...
Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris
1st Edition
By Mark Everist
September 27, 2018
Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set designs, scenery and costumes. All this ...
History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th–10th Centuries
1st Edition
By Athanasios Markopoulos
September 27, 2018
The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty, and include four translated into English for this volume. They reflect both historical and prosopographical concerns, but Professor Markopoulos's ...
Ibn Sina and his Influence on the Arabic and Latin World
1st Edition
By Jules Janssens
September 27, 2018
This volume focuses on Ibn Sina - the Avicenna of the Latin West - and the enormous impact of his philosophy in both the Islamic and Christian worlds. Jules Janssens opens with a new introductory article, surveying the position of work in the field. The next studies look at Ibn Sina's work and ...
Politics and Institutions in Capetian France
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A.R.Brown
September 27, 2018
The nine essays in this volume by Elizabeth Brown deal with the development of representative institutions and monarchial power in Capetian France. One topic covered is that of the evolution of central assemblies, with case studies of the assemblies held between 1316 and 1321 illuminating the ...
Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam
1st Edition
By Fedwa Malti-Douglas
September 27, 2018
From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits...
Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Stephen D. White
September 27, 2018
This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They ...