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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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 ...
The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
1st Edition
By Hugh Kennedy
August 28, 2006
The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Empire from the 8th to the 11th centuries; and ...
East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity: Historiographical and Historical Studies
1st Edition
By James Howard-Johnston
July 28, 2006
The last, longest and most damaging of the wars fought between East Rome and Sasanian Persia (603-628) brought the classical phase of west Eurasian history to a dramatic close. Despite its evident significance, not least as the distant setting for Muhammad's prophetic mission, this last great war ...
Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance
1st Edition
By F. Edward Cranz, Nancy Struever
July 28, 2006
The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental reorientation of the categories of thought ...
Studies in Hiberno-Latin Literature
1st Edition
By Mario Esposito, Michael M. Gorman
July 28, 2006
The twenty papers by Mario Esposito (1887-1975) reprinted here date from 1909 to 1961, and complete the collection of his Hiberno-Latin studies presented in the first two volumes of his papers, published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series in 1988 and 1990. The studies exemplify Esposito's ...
Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography
1st Edition
By J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz
June 28, 2006
The essays in this second collection of articles by Professor Liebeschuetz deal with several aspects of the history of Late Antiquity. One theme is the prehistory of Late Antique ethical monotheism, which is illustrated by studies of pagan cults, Mithraism and Judaism. Several essays discuss the ...