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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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. ...
The Platonic Heritage: Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity
1st Edition
By John Dillon
May 22, 2017
This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular ...
Studies in Medieval Muslim Thought and History
1st Edition
By Wilferd Madelung, edited by Sabine Schmidtke
May 04, 2017
This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung’s articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam and Studies in Medieval ShÄ«ism). The first sections contain articles examining intellectual and ...
The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe: The Arabs, Euclid, Regiomontanus
1st Edition
By Menso Folkerts
November 04, 2016
The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe complements the previous collection of articles by Menso Folkerts, Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics, and deals with the development of mathematics in Europe from the 12th century to about 1500. In the 12th century European learning was greatly ...
Crusade and Colonisation: Muslims, Christians and Jews Under the Crown of Aragon
1st Edition
By Elena Lourie
October 21, 2016
The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research. On the one hand, the struggle forced Spanish society into a mould which then shaped the course of its expansion into the Americas, on the other it...
Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds
1st Edition
By Charles Burnett
April 22, 2016
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and ...
Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence
1st Edition
By Tim Carter
April 07, 2016
This collection of reprinted essays starts from the author's doctoral research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence. It extends to broader issues concerning music and patronage in the city as they affected individual composers...