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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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 ...
French Opera 1730–1830: Meaning and Media
1st Edition
By David Charlton
April 06, 2017
The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume. Drawing on recent archival research and new musicological theory, they investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opéra comique to early grand opera. ’Media...
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...
Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions
1st Edition
By Gad Freudenthal
April 07, 2016
Two major themes run through these studies by Gad Freudenthal: science and philosophy in the medieval Hebrew tradition; and the repercussions of Greek theories of matter in the medieval Arabic and Hebrew scientific traditions. The opening essays offer a sociologically-informed picture of the ...
The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800: Studies in Economic, Social and Cultural History
1st Edition
By M.N. Pearson
April 07, 2016
The articles in The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 describe the activities of people living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, generously defined, during the early modern period. Most are based, at least in part, on Portuguese materials. A broad theme linking them all is the claim that in ...
Galileo, the Jesuits, and the Medieval Aristotle
1st Edition
By William A. Wallace
February 19, 2016
The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a progressive Aristotelianism in fact provided the foundation for Galileo's scientific discoveries. The ...
Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies
1st Edition
By Stephen W. Reinert
August 13, 2014
This volume brings together ten studies on the political, religious and socioeconomic interaction between the rising Ottoman empire and declining Byzantine state in the last decades of the fourteenth century. They focus on key but under-explored episodes of that encounter, particularly in ...
Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought
1st Edition
By Kevin Corrigan
September 20, 2013
This book brings together a selection of Kevin Corrigan’s works published over the course of some 27 years. Its predominant theme is the encounter with otherness in ancient, medieval and modern thought and it ranges in scope from the Presocratics-through Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and the late ...