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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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 ...
Frankish History: Studies in the Construction of Power
1st Edition
By Paul Fouracre
March 12, 2013
The volume consists of sixteen papers on the history of Francia between the seventh and eleventh centuries. Originally published between 1979 and 2009, the papers are arranged around three interlinking themes: the relationship between History and Hagiography, the history of Francia under the ...
Churches, Castles and Landscape in the Frankish East
1st Edition
By Denys Pringle
January 14, 2013
The sixteen studies brought together in this book (the second collection of Denys Pringle's articles) are the product of the many years that the author has spent investigating the material evidence for Latin settlement in Syria and Palestine in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Focusing on the ...
Studies in Medieval Shi'ism
1st Edition
By Wilferd Madelung, edited by Sabine Schmidtke
November 22, 2012
This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, and Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam). The first articles here examine legal and political aspects of early Shi`ism. The following ...
Islamic Astronomy and Geography
1st Edition
By David A. King
November 12, 2012
This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It ...
Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe: Theories and Approaches
1st Edition
By Paola Zambelli
August 01, 2012
Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with theories: the ideas of astrology and magic ...