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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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This volume brings together Professor Cranz’s published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death.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 ...
The Middle Ages without Feudalism: Essays in Criticism and Comparison on the Medieval West
1st Edition
By Susan Reynolds
July 27, 2017
This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994). There she argued that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as generally understood by historians of medieval Europe, were ...
Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
1st Edition
By John Monfasani
June 28, 2017
Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, ...
Cult, Ritual, Divinity and Belief in the Roman World
1st Edition
By Duncan Fishwick
May 31, 2017
The papers assembled in this selection of studies range in subject matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of the collection is nevertheless on religious developments under the High Roman Empire: problems arising from the ...
Byzantine Chronicles and the Sixth Century
1st Edition
By Roger Scott
May 22, 2017
Byzantine chronicles have traditionally been regarded as a somewhat inferior form of Byzantine history writing, especially in comparison with 'classicizing' historians. The aim of many of these papers is both to rescue the reputation of the Byzantine chroniclers, especially Malalas and Theophanes, ...
Byzantium and the Other: Relations and Exchanges
1st Edition
By Angeliki E. Laiou, Cécile Morrisson, Rowan Dorin
May 22, 2017
Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium and the Other: Relations and Exchanges, the second of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum ...
Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300
1st Edition
By John Boe
May 22, 2017
The fifteen studies assembled here grew out of research on south-Italian ordinary chants and tropes for the multi-volume series Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II, edited by John Boe in collaboration with Alejandro Planchart. In the present essays, clerical and ordinary chants and tropes of the Mass (...