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 Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period
1st Edition
By Sidney H. Griffith
November 04, 2002
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the ...
Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture
1st Edition
By Simon Franklin
October 15, 2002
The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original. The essays in this...
Studies on the History of Late Antique and Christian Nubia
1st Edition
By Laurence Kirwan, T. Hägg, D.A. Welsby
August 07, 2002
Gathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications. Kirwan's fieldwork in the region, undertaken ...
Reason and Belief in the Age of Roscelin and Abelard
1st Edition
By Constant J. Mews
July 24, 2002
The previous collection by Constant J. Mews focused on the work and thought of Peter Abelard (1079-1142); the present volume looks more broadly at Abelard's intellectual and religious context in the Latin West, and at his teacher, the controversial nominalist philosopher and theologian, Roscelin of...
The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law: Studies on the Iberian Kingdoms and Papal Rome in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Peter Linehan
July 19, 2002
This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries. Amongst those discussed and explored ...
Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy
1st Edition
By Jill Kraye
July 10, 2002
The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, including the humanist Angelo Poliziano and the Platonist Marsilio ...
Heresy, Philosophy and Religion in the Medieval West
1st Edition
By Gordon Leff
July 10, 2002
The papers in this volume fall into four sections. The first part deals more generally with heresy, religious movements and the Church, while the second focuses on Wyclif, covering his path to dissent, his religious doctrines, and a doctrinal comparison with Hus. Philosophical themes come to the ...
Friendship and Faith: Cistercian Men, Women, and Their Stories, 1100-1250
1st Edition
By Brian Patrick McGuire
June 12, 2002
In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition. These texts are made up of brief stories, often with a miraculous content, which provided moral support for novices and monks in Cistercian abbeys all over Europe in the High Middle Ages. The Cistercians ...
History, Religion, and Violence: Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
1st Edition
By Clifford Davidson
June 10, 2002
Professor Davidson is concerned here to chart public theatrical display as a barometer of developments in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book brings together twelve previously published articles on historical and religious aspects of the early English theatre as well as an original ...
Court Culture and Literature in Early China
1st Edition
By David R. Knechtges
May 28, 2002
The studies brought together here focus upon the literary and cultural activity of the Chinese court during the Han and early medieval period. The first section concerns court literature in the Former Han and deals with the role of literature, especially poetry, at both the imperial and princely ...
The Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontos: A Source Book
1st Edition
By Anthony Bryer, David Winfield, Selina Ballance
May 03, 2002
This volume makes available a unique record of the post-Byzantine architecture and buildings - churches primarily, but also monasteries, bridges and schools - of the Pontos, the north-eastern coastlands of Anatolia. The region enjoyed two great periods of prosperity, first expressed in the richness...
Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
1st Edition
By Sharon Kettering
April 28, 2002
The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an overview of the scholarly literature and suggest that the obligatory reciprocity of the patron-client exchange was a defining characteristic...