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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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 ...
Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music: Opera and Chamber Music in France and England
1st Edition
By Mary Cyr
May 28, 2008
In this collection of essays Mary Cyr explores some of the written and unwritten performance conventions that applied to French and English music of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Using composers' own notations, marks added by 18th-century performers, historical treatises, and pictorial ...
From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire: Army, State and Society in the Near East c.600-850
1st Edition
By Patricia Crone
April 28, 2008
This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brings together studies on the development of early Muslim society, above all the army with which it was originally synonymous, from shortly after the Prophet's death until the mid-Abbasid period. The focus is on the changes that the Arab ...
The Earth Sciences in the Enlightenment: Studies on the Early Development of Geology
1st Edition
By Kenneth L. Taylor
March 28, 2008
This volume is concerned with the geological sciences in the 18th century, with special emphasis on France and French scientists. A first focus is on the pioneering geologist Nicolas Desmarest, whose investigations in Auvergne and Italy (among other places) had important consequences in geological ...
Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545-63)
1st Edition
By Nelson H. Minnich
February 28, 2008
This new collection by Nelson Minnich deals with the general councils of the Catholic Reformation in the late medieval and early modern periods. The volume opens with overviews of the various editions of and current scholarship on these general councils. Three studies then give special attention to...
An Orthodox Commonwealth: Symbolic Legacies and Cultural Encounters in Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
By Paschalis M. Kitromilides
December 28, 2007
This collection brings together fifteen studies on the survival and adaptation of the Orthodox religious and cultural tradition in the societies of Southeastern Europe after the fall of Constantinople, a world so often misunderstood and misinterpreted. This problem of cultural history is examined ...
Studies in Pre-Ottoman Turkey and the Ottomans
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Zachariadou
December 28, 2007
The studies included in the present collection by Elizabeth Zachariadou are concerned with the long period of transition from the Byzantine Empire to its successor, the Ottoman Empire. Among the themes covered are the processes of settlement and state-formation amongst the nomadic and often ...
Studies on the History and Topography of Byzantine Constantinople
1st Edition
By Paul Magdalino
August 28, 2007
Constantinople originated in 330 A.D. as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. Its transition from the one to the other was determined partly by its continuous function as an ...