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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Biblical Interpretation from the Church Fathers to the Reformation
1st Edition
By Karlfried Froehlich
August 28, 2010
The history of biblical interpretation has attracted considerable attention in recent decades. This is particularly true in the field of medieval exegesis where much effort has been spent on making primary materials available and advancing their interpretation. One area of research in which even ...
Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac
1st Edition
By John W. Watt
August 28, 2010
Shortly after 500 CE, the Syriac-speaking priest and physician Sergius of Resh'aina, who had studied in Alexandria, wrote the first known exposition of Aristotle in a Semitic language. About four centuries later, Abu Bishr Matta, an alumnus of the monastic school of Dayr Qunna in Iraq, completed ...
Mamluks and Crusaders: Men of the Sword and Men of the Pen
1st Edition
By Robert Irwin
July 28, 2010
Mamluks and Crusaders: Men of the Sword and Men of the Pen brings together a series of studies, based mainly on medieval Arabic sources, of Middle Eastern history and society in the late Middle Ages. Several of these studies deal with the confrontation between the Mamluks and the Crusaders. Others ...
The Practice of Medieval Music: Studies in Chant and Performance
1st Edition
By Thomas Forrest Kelly
July 28, 2010
How music functioned in the middle ages, what it meant to its hearers, and how it was performed: these are the subjects of this fascinating volume. The studies collected here introduce the reader to the practical detail and complex intricacies of the performance of medieval music in the liturgy, ...
Greeks, Latins, and the Church in Early Frankish Cyprus
1st Edition
By Christopher D. Schabel
May 28, 2010
The studies here deal with the first half of the period of almost four centuries (1191-1571) when Greeks, Latins, and other groups coexisted on the island of Cyprus. Under the French-speaking Lusignan dynasty, the Kingdom of Cyprus gradually evolved from a fragmented cluster of indigenous and alien...
Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment: British and Global Contexts
1st Edition
By John Gascoigne
May 28, 2010
Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement's filiation and influence in a range of contexts. In contrast to some recently influential views it ...
China and the Birth of Globalization in the 16th Century
1st Edition
By Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez
April 28, 2010
Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez concerns the origins and early development of globalization. It opens with their 1995 "Silver Spoon" essay and a theoretical essay published in 2002. Subsequent sections deal with Pacific Ocean...
Cultural Change Among the Jews of Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Robert Bonfil
April 28, 2010
The articles collected in this volume display Robert Bonfil's pioneering reappraisal of the economic and socio-cultural history of the Jews of Italy during the Renaissance and the early modern period, focusing on their encounter with and incorporation into the Italian society that surrounded them. ...
Humanist Biography in Renaissance Italy and Reformation Germany: Friendship and Rhetoric
1st Edition
By James M. Weiss
April 28, 2010
As new kinds of persons arose during the Renaissance and Reformation, writers of biography created new ways to depict them. Foremost among biographers were lay humanists who strategically blended personal memoirs and recently recaptured classical models to produce flexible new forms of biography. ...
Religion and Society in the Medieval West, 600–1200: Selected Papers
1st Edition
By Henry Mayr-Harting
March 28, 2010
The papers reprinted here all have to do with the very varied ways in which religion made an impact upon, or was intertwined with, political and social life. They span the period from 600 to 1200, with particular points of focus on early Anglo-Saxon England, Charlemagne, the Ottonian empire, and ...
State and Society in the Ottoman Empire
1st Edition
By Haim Gerber
March 28, 2010
This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern ...
Considering Medieval Women and Gender
1st Edition
By Susan Mosher Stuard
February 28, 2010
Professor Stuard collects here a set of her articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages, beginning with her first, published in 1975. The first section, on marriage, opens with an exploration of the Ragusa/Dubrovnik archives, reaches out to consider patterns of gift-giving at marriage and of ...