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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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 ...
Spain and the Early Stuarts, 1585–1655
1st Edition
By Albert J. Loomie
March 21, 2018
These studies focus on Spain's relations with England from the last stages of the Elizabethan war to the opening years of the Cromwellian regime. Particular attention is given to the issue of religion and to the character and conduct of peacetime diplomacy - and intelligence gathering. In the first...
Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance
1st Edition
By F. Edward Cranz, Thomas M. Izbicki
March 08, 2018
This volume brings together Professor Cranz’s published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of the Renaissance. Particular attention is ...
Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books
1st Edition
By M.B. Parkes, edited by P.R. Robinson
October 18, 2017
In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, ...
Crusaders and Franks: Studies in the History of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant
1st Edition
By Benjamin Z. Kedar
October 13, 2017
While research on the crusades tends increasingly to bifurcate into study of the crusade idea and the crusading expeditions, and study of the Frankish states the crusaders established in the Levant, Benjamin Kedar confirms-through the articles reproduced in this latest selection of his articles-his...
The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17): Their Legitimacy, Origins, Contents, and Implementation
1st Edition
By Nelson H. Minnich
October 13, 2017
The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17), whose 500th anniversary is being commemorated, has left a legacy little studied by scholars. The council’s status as an ecumenical council was questioned by its opponents and its decrees ignored, resisted, or only slowly implemented. This new collection of ...
The Reception of Byzantine Culture in Mediaeval Russia
1st Edition
By Francis J. Thomson
September 28, 2017
It is a truism that Russian culture is based upon the reception of Byzantine culture. However, the question of what was in fact received is the task that Professor Thomson has set in these studies, by means of a detailed examination of the corpus of translations. Down to the 17th century this ...