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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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 ...
From Atoms to Molecules: Studies in the History of Chemistry from the 19th Century
1st Edition
By Colin A. Russell
February 28, 2010
The focus of this volume by Professor Russell is the history of organic chemistry, which arose improbably out of early speculations about the construction of chemical compounds, and in particular their electrochemical nature. The rise of electrochemistry and the work of Berzelius were critical in ...
Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium
1st Edition
By John Scarborough
January 28, 2010
Professor Scarborough brings together here fourteen of his essays on ancient drugs and pharmacy, dealing with aspects of a pharmacology and medical botany that incorporate magic, astrology, and alchemy, as well as the expected theoretical constructs of elements, qualities, and humors. Clinical ...
Essays on Medieval Military History: Strategy, Military Revolutions and the Hundred Years War
1st Edition
By Clifford J. Rogers
December 28, 2009
The Hundred Years War has been the focus of much scholarly work over the past decades. In this collection of fifteen studies, Clifford J. Rogers treats numerous aspects of the war, with particular emphasis on the reign of Edward III. Several campaigns are analyzed in detail, drawing on manuscript...
Ritual, Ceremony and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350-1789
1st Edition
By Lawrence M. Bryant
December 28, 2009
This collection of articles explores changes in images of the French monarchy propagated in ceremonies that townspeople and officials created for their kings. Bryant looks at royal entrées as massive processional and street theaters in which members of the kingdom both discoursed with and exalted ...
Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context
1st Edition
By Charles Burnett
October 28, 2009
This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations ...
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 ...