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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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 ...
Social and Economic Life in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Nicolas Oikonomides, Elizabeth Zachariadou
September 27, 2018
Social and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series; a fourth, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium, will follow in 2005. The present volume is centred upon the period from the 9th to ...
Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500–1822
1st Edition
By A.J.R. Russell-Wood
September 11, 2018
Professor Russell-Wood’s detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion. This collection combines work on particular persons and groupings with survey articles on the role of the ...
Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico
1st Edition
By Michael J. B. Allen
August 14, 2018
Fifteen of these essays by one of the leading authorities on Renaissance Platonism explore the complex philosophical, hermeneutical, and mythological issues addressed by the Florentine, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99). Ficino was the pre-eminent Platonist of his time and a distinguished philosopher, ...
Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History
1st Edition
By G.A. Loud
July 06, 2018
This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the 'golden age' of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was at the height of its influence and three of its monks...
The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880: Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation
1st Edition
By Pieter Emmer
July 06, 2018
This volume provides the first survey in English of the Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system. It covers the period from the origins of the trade and the Dutch conquest of part of Brazil in the early 17th century, to the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies in the...
The Qur'an and its Interpretative Tradition
1st Edition
By Andrew Rippin
May 21, 2018
The position of the Qur'an as the central symbol and reference point of Islam cannot be disputed. Despite this significance, the academic study of the Qur'an has lagged far behind that of the Bible. In these studies Andrew Rippin reflects upon both the principles and the problems of studying the ...