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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Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I
1st Edition
Edited
By Dimitri Gutas, Richard M. Frank
December 23, 2005
The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (...
Jerusalem: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume IV
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
November 28, 2005
Jerusalem is the final volume in a set of four selections of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three ...
Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts
1st Edition
By Mark Vessey
August 28, 2005
By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary ...
Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France
1st Edition
By Stephen D. White
May 28, 2005
The essays in this volume discuss feuding and peacemaking in France during a period extending from the mid-10th to the early 12th century. They treat various aspects of so-called dispute-processing - a term coined by legal anthropologists to refer to the political processes and discursive practices...
Merchant Families, Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca
1st Edition
By Thomas W. Blomquist
May 27, 2005
This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they invested, and how they pursued their family interests. In particular, they trace the transformation ...
People, Tribes and Society in Arabia Around the Time of Muhammad
1st Edition
By Michael Lecker
April 28, 2005
The emergence of Islam has in recent years become a matter of heated debate, mainly because Islamic historiography is a battle-field of contradictory versions of the past. In this second collection of studies, several of which appear here for the first time, Michael Lecker distances himself from ...
Reading Plato, Tracing Plato: From Ancient Commentary to Medieval Reception
1st Edition
By Stephen Gersh
March 14, 2005
Stephen Gersh deals here with the Platonic tradition in European thought from the 4th to the 14th century. During this period one can distinguish an earlier phase, consisting of the work of ancient Greek commentators who possessed Plato's original works, and a later phase comprising the activities ...
The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century: Erasmus, Religion and Politics, Trade and Finance
1st Edition
By James D. Tracy
March 10, 2005
In the 16th century, the population of the Low Countries (modern Belgium and The Netherlands), the most urbanized and best educated in Transalpine Europe, provided not just a ready audience for ideas of religious reform, but a sophisticated political framework for the airing of the great debates of...
Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades
1st Edition
By Annemarie Weyl Carr
March 03, 2005
Professor Carr is concerned here with the devotional arts of the Byzantine world in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The first set of studies deals with groups of illuminated manuscripts of the twelfth century, mostly connected with the Eastern Mediterranean, while the second ...
Lives and Miracles of the Saints: Studies in Medieval Latin Hagiography
1st Edition
By Michael E. Goodich
December 23, 2004
Hagiography is a rich source for our knowledge of many aspects of medieval culture and tradition. The lives and miracles of the saints may be read on several levels, both as an expression of the dominant ideology and as a reflection of long-term themes in medieval society. The essays in this volume...
Rulership in France, 15th–17th Centuries
1st Edition
By Ralph E. Giesey
November 22, 2004
The common theme of these essays is the emergence of the modern state in late medieval and renaissance France. They examine, on the one hand, how the image of the king was enhanced in a variety of royal ceremonials as well as in the political writings of Jean Bodin and Cardin le Bret. The limits of...
Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy
1st Edition
By Raymond Mercier
August 16, 2004
Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy opens with a new survey of the transmission of Hellenistic astronomy, followed by two studies on how the notion of precession was treated by Babylonian, Greek, Indian, Arabic and Latin hands. Next is a survey of the astronomical tables ...