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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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 ...
Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100–1550
1st Edition
By David Abulafia
December 27, 2000
This third volume by David Abulafia looks at the interactions between territories, peoples and religions across the Mediterranean, and at the influence of the Mediterranean economy on the world beyond. Topics addressed are trade across the Christian-Muslim frontier; the relative importance of local...
Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition
1st Edition
By Dimitri Gutas
December 14, 2000
Professor Gutas deals here with the lives, sayings, thought, and doctrines of Greek philosophers drawn from sources preserved in medieval Arabic translations and for the most part not extant in the original. The Arabic texts, some of which are edited here for the first time, are translated ...
Aristotelian Logic, Platonism, and the Context of Early Medieval Philosophy in the West
1st Edition
By John Marenbon
December 05, 2000
Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism. The articles in this volume question this view, by cataloguing, describing and investigating the tradition of Aristotelian logic in the period, examining its influence on authors usually placed ...
Monteverdi and his Contemporaries
1st Edition
By Tim Carter
November 28, 2000
This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The ...
Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West: Revivals, Crusades, Saints
1st Edition
By Gary Dickson
November 21, 2000
Collective religious enthusiasm was a surprisingly many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe. Amongst the forms it took were remarkable revivalist movements like the flagellants of 1260; popular crusades like the often mythologized ’children’s crusade’ of 1212 and the '...
Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance: The Impact of the Great Discoveries
1st Edition
By W.G.L. Randles
October 30, 2000
The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr ...
Essays on the Industrial Revolution in Britain
1st Edition
By Sidney Pollard
October 28, 2000
This volume has three main themes. First, there is the concept of the Industrial Revolution and its main characteristics, and the author defends both the term and the notions behind it against attempts to play down their significance. A particular interest is the comparison of what happened to ...