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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Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Mark Edwards
May 22, 2017
Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often studied separately; when studied together they are too often conflated. These articles set out to show that we misunderstand all three phenomena if we take either approach. We cannot interpret, or even identify, Christian Gnosticism ...
English Poets in the Late Middle Ages: Chaucer, Langland and Others
1st Edition
By John A. Burrow
May 22, 2017
This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical ...
Essays on Medieval Rhetoric
1st Edition
By Martin Camargo
May 22, 2017
Originally published between 1981 and 2003, the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. Most of the essays are concerned with the teaching of prose composition, especially the art of letter writing known...
Exegesis and Theology in Early Christianity
1st Edition
By Frances Young
May 22, 2017
This collection of articles first brings together a number of working papers which were significant in the development of Frances Young's understanding of patristic exegesis, studies not included in her ground-breaking book, Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (1997), though ...
Historical Memory and Clerical Activity in Medieval Spain and Portugal
1st Edition
By Peter Linehan
May 22, 2017
This fourth Variorum collection of articles by Peter Linehan comprises items largely from the past decade. The studies represent further investigation of themes broached in earlier works, in particular the latest report on the movements of Cardinal John of Abbeville, and the related subjects of ...
Peiresc's Orient: Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Peter N. Miller
May 22, 2017
The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this ...
Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe
1st Edition
By Stuart Airlie
May 22, 2017
A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the ...
Religion, Magic, and the Origins of Science in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By John Henry
May 22, 2017
In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new understandings of nature, and on the other hand for the role of occult concepts in early modern natural philosophy. Focussing on the scene in England, the ...
Studies on Alberti and Petrarch
1st Edition
By David Marsh
May 22, 2017
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. His Latin writings owe much to the model of Petrarch (1304-1374), the famed ...
Studies on the Melitian Schism in Egypt (AD 306–335)
1st Edition
By Hans Hauben, edited by Peter Van Nuffelen
May 22, 2017
The Melitian schism originated in the context of the Diocletianic persecution. In 306, under dramatic circumstances, Melitius of Lycopolis decided to challenge his superior, the bishop of Alexandria. An attempt at reconciliation proposed by the Council of Nicaea (325) was unsuccessful, and the ...
The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Maribel Fierro
May 22, 2017
The studies in this collection comprise a series of explorations into the revolutionary character of the Almohad movement in medieval North Africa and Spain and how it was expressed, including through compelling visual and auditory means. Almohad silver coins were minted square instead of round, ...
The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine
1st Edition
By Andrew Cunningham
May 22, 2017
In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. ...