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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Crusading and Warfare in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
1st Edition
By Norman Housley
July 28, 2001
These studies span the period from the origins of the crusading movement in the 11th century until its final active phase during the Renaissance. Some of the articles spring from Norman Housley’s work on crusading against Christian heretics, mercenary companies and lay powers which were involved in...
Urban and Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
1st Edition
By Jean-Michel Spieser
July 28, 2001
Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity - and early Christianity - focusing upon notions of space. The first set of articles, opening with a newly-written introductory essay, addresses the development of urban landscapes from ...
Byzantium, Latin Romania and the Mediterranean
1st Edition
By David Jacoby
July 27, 2001
The studies included in this latest volume by Professor Jacoby deal with demographic, social, economic and institutional issues in the history of Byzantium and Latin Romania (the Byzantine territories conquered by the Latins after the Fourth Crusade), as well as with Mediterranean trade between the...
Medicine in a Multicultural Society: Christian, Jewish and Muslim Practitioners in the Spanish Kingdoms, 1222–1610
1st Edition
By Luis García-Ballester
July 27, 2001
The present collection by Professor GarcÃa-Ballester deals with medicine and science (i.e. natural philosophy) in the Spanish kingdoms of Castile and Aragon between the 13th and the 17th centuries. It includes a new English version of a major study first published in Spanish. While sharing much, ...
Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Philip D. Curtin
June 18, 2001
These papers explore the history of the tropical regions of the Atlantic basin, sometimes focused on the Caribbean, sometimes on Africa, but always with a comparative dimension. The Atlantic basin is central to most of these comparisons, but they are a part of an even broader effort to capture the...
Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West
1st Edition
By H.A. Kelly
May 28, 2001
'Inquisition' was the new form of criminal procedure that was developed by the lawyer-pope Innocent III and given definitive form at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. It has since developed a notoriety which has obscured the reality of the procedure, and it is this that Professor Kelly is first ...
Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847
1st Edition
Edited
By David L. Cohen
May 24, 2001
Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the period covered was intimately concerned with the selection, compounding, dispensing and ...
Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China
1st Edition
By Edwin G. Pulleyblank
April 19, 2001
This first volume of studies by Professor Pulleyblank opens with an abridged version of his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, on Chinese history and world history. The next pieces look at the historiography of Tang China, and more broadly at Chinese attitudes to the writing of history and the ...
Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews
1st Edition
By William Chester Jordan
March 28, 2001
Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt ...
The Waldenses, 1170–1530: Between a Religious Order and a Church
1st Edition
By Peter Biller
March 14, 2001
The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a clandestine religious order, preaching to and ...
Venice and the Veneto in the Early Renaissance
1st Edition
By John E. Law
December 31, 2000
John Law is concerned here with the administration of the Venetian state in the late 14th and 15th centuries, and specifically with its possessions on the mainland of Italy. These gave Venice dangerously exposed and lengthy land frontiers, and also included a number of cities whose loyalties were ...
Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance: Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo
1st Edition
By Edward P. Mahoney
December 29, 2000
This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d. 1499) and Agostino Nifo (ca 1470-1538) - whose careers must be seen as inter-related. Both began by holding Averroes ...