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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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 ...
Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Angeliki E. Laiou, Cécile Morrisson, Rowan Dorin
August 27, 2013
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. Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium, the last of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum Collected...
Perception, Conscience and Will in Ancient Philosophy
1st Edition
By Richard Sorabji
August 27, 2013
This book is about the human mind in ancient philosophy, with a focus on sense perception, a subject that Richard Sorabji has previously treated more in articles than in books. But it finishes with chapters offering a distinctive view on moral conscience and will. Sense perception raises the ...
Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Éric Rebillard
August 21, 2013
The eighteen papers collected in this volume - fifteen of which are published in English for the first time - explore the transformations of religious practices between the third and the fifth centuries in the Western part of the Roman Empire. They share an approach that privileges the study of ...
Witchcraft, Madness, Society, and Religion in Early Modern Germany: A Ship of Fools
1st Edition
By H.C. Erik Midelfort
August 16, 2013
H.C. Erik Midelfort has carved out a reputation for innovative work on early modern German history, with a particular focus on the social history of ideas and religion. This collection pulls together some of his best work on the related subjects of witchcraft, the history of madness and psychology,...
Settlement and Soldiers in the Roman Near East
1st Edition
By David Kennedy
August 15, 2013
The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development ... yet relatively neglected by modern researchers and difficult to ...
Approaches to Monteverdi: Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Kurtzman
August 13, 2013
This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer’s music, reflecting the author's interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of making critical editions. The opera Orfeo and two madrigals from Monteverdi's Book Eight...
Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By T.A. Birrell, edited by Jos Blom
April 28, 2013
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very popular ...