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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Studies on the Cult of Relics in Byzantium up to 1204
1st Edition
By John Wortley
October 28, 2009
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the late 4th to the 10th ...
Christian Politics and Religious Culture in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Neil McLynn
September 28, 2009
These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversion, and the experiments in religious self-presentation which are reflected in our sources from the ...
Welsh History in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Societies
1st Edition
By Wendy Davies
July 28, 2009
This volume brings together Wendy Davies's pioneering early studies on the text of the Book of Llan Dâv alongside later pieces which explore the place of Wales in the wider world of the early middle ages. The Llandaff studies have provoked much subsequent comment: readers will find it helpful to ...
Studies in Medieval Taoism and the Poetry of Li Po
1st Edition
By Paul W. Kroll
June 28, 2009
The emergence of Taoism during the 3rd through 8th centuries as China's indigenous higher religion affected all areas of culture. This volume, one of a pair by Paul Kroll (its companion dealing with other aspects of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history), brings together twelve studies ...
Land and People in Late Medieval England
1st Edition
By Bruce M.S. Campbell
April 28, 2009
This is the third collection of articles by Bruce Campbell to appear in the Variorum series. Late medieval England was an overwhelmingly rural society. Never since has such a large proportion of the population lived in the countryside or relied so directly for its livelihood upon agriculture. The ...
The Ottoman Economy and Its Institutions
1st Edition
By Sevket Pamuk
March 01, 2009
The Ottoman Empire stood at a crossroads of intercontinental trade, stretching from the Balkans and the Black Sea region through the present day Middle East and most of the North African coast for six centuries up to World War I. The articles in this volume by a leading economic historian examine ...
Guilds, Price Formation and Market Structures in Byzantium
1st Edition
By George C. Maniatis
January 28, 2009
The essays reproduced in this volume analyze the guild system in Byzantium and the West, and investigate for the first time the process of price formation in Byzantium. Innovative approaches are devised to fathom the conceptual basis, institutional parameters, market organization and structures, ...
Enamels, Crowns, Relics and Icons: Studies on Luxury Arts in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Paul Hetherington
December 28, 2008
This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world, but sculpture and glyptics ...
Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia
1st Edition
By M.C.A. Macdonald
December 28, 2008
In these studies Michael Macdonald examines the extraordinary flowering of literacy in both the settled and nomadic populations of western Arabia in the 1500 years before the birth of Islam, when a larger proportion of the population could read and write than in any other part of the ancient Near ...
Classical Islamic Theology: The Ash`arites: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. III
1st Edition
Edited
By Dimitri Gutas, Richard M. Frank
September 28, 2008
This is the third of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America, and completes the set. The present volume on the Ash`arites and the classical Ash`arite tradition brings together articles written in...
From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval Texts and their Modern Reception
1st Edition
By Roderick Beaton
September 28, 2008
The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in language, the vernacular made its first tentative ...
Venice Besieged: Politics and Diplomacy in the Italian Wars, 1494–1534
1st Edition
By Robert Finlay
August 28, 2008
The Republic of Venice experienced relentless crisis in the early sixteenth century-political, military, ideological, and commercial. Focusing on Venice's involvement in the Italian Wars, these essays examine various episodes and dimensions of that time of troubles. These include the impact of ...