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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The Mongols in the Islamic Lands: Studies in the History of the Ilkhanate
1st Edition
By Reuven Amitai
August 28, 2007
The Mongols had a profound effect on the regions that they ruled in the eastern Muslim world, from the first Mongol invasion in 1219 through the breakup of the Ilkhanate in 1335 and the various, short-lived successor states. The influence of their rule - positive as well as negative - on the ...
Courts, Elites, and Gendered Power in the Early Middle Ages: Charlemagne and Others
1st Edition
By Janet L. Nelson
June 28, 2007
A major theme in the volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Papers range widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of ...
Studies on the Hospitallers after 1306: Rhodes and the West
1st Edition
By Anthony Luttrell
May 28, 2007
This is the fifth collection of studies on the Hospitallers of Rhodes by Anthony Luttrell to appear in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. In these 24 studies the emphasis is on the 14th century, on the central Convent facing the Turks, on the hinterland in the Order's European priories and ...
Early Islamic Theology: The Mu`tazilites and al-Ash`ari: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II
1st Edition
By Richard M. Frank, Dimitri Gutas
February 28, 2007
This is the second of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America. It brings together Franks's articles on early kalam, the Mu`tazilites, and the development of the thought of al-Ash`ari. The studies...
Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings: Studies on Power and Trade in the 9th Century
1st Edition
By Simon Coupland
January 28, 2007
Historians and numismatists alike will welcome the appearance of this volume, which brings together for the first time Simon Coupland's series of highly significant articles on Carolingian coinage. The author draws out the economic and political implications of coin types and coin hoards from the ...
War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
1st Edition
By Donald J. Kagay
January 28, 2007
The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J. Kagay is the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon. He shows how the extensive episodes of warfare during the 13th and 14th centuries served as a catalyst for the extension of the king's law...
Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation
1st Edition
By Robert S. Nelson
January 12, 2007
Written over nearly three decades, the fifteen essays involve the three a's of the title, art, agency, and appreciation. The first refers to the general subject matter of the book, Byzantine art, chiefly painting, of the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, the second to its often human-like ...
Franks, Muslims and Oriental Christians in the Latin Levant: Studies in Frontier Acculturation
1st Edition
By Benjamin Z. Kedar
November 28, 2006
Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Frankish Levant as 'disappointing'; Joshua Prawer claimed that the Franks refused to open up to the East's intellectual achievements. The present collection, the second by Benjamin Kedar in the Variorum series, presents facts that require a ...
Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus
1st Edition
By Donald F. Duclow
November 28, 2006
The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. All three mastered what Cusanus described as docta ignorantia: reflecting on their awareness that they could know ...
Dante's Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond
1st Edition
By Richard Kay
September 28, 2006
Dante's Comedy is a puzzling poem because the author wanted to lead his readers to understanding by engaging their curiosity. While many obscure matters are clarified in the course of the poem itself, others have remained enigmas that have fascinated Dantists for centuries. Over the last ...
Music in Renaissance Florence: Studies and Documents
1st Edition
By Frank A. D’Accone
September 28, 2006
Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers. Tracing the origins and development of musical chapels...
Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: Sources and Approaches
1st Edition
By Roger S. Bagnall
August 28, 2006
This second collection by Roger Bagnall brings together a further two dozen of his studies, this time covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt, published over the last thirty years. Many of the articles deal with issues of historical and papyrological method: the restoration of papyrus ...