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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Composition, Printing and Performance: Studies in Renaissance Music
1st Edition
By Bonnie J. Blackburn
June 28, 2000
The first articles here focus on Johannes Tinctoris, the prominent late 15th-century music theorist. They deal with the discovery of his lost pedagogical motet, and his treatise on counterpoint; this forms the basis of a wide-ranging investigation of contemporary practices of improvisation and ...
Eschatology and Christian Nurture: Themes in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Religious Life
1st Edition
By Milton McC. Gatch
June 21, 2000
Professor Gatch opens with three essays providing an overview of the themes of this book: eschatology and the basic education of the laity. Despite an undoubted acceptance of immortality and an active afterlife, Gatch believes that medieval eschatology remained strikingly oriented to the New ...
The Jews in the Roman Empire: Legal Problems, from Herod to Justinian
1st Edition
By Alfredo Mordechai Rabello
June 16, 2000
The focus of this book is on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that it underwent when the empire became Christian. Conflicts between Roman and Jewish jurisdiction form an important theme, while particular studies deal with questions of conversion, the observance ...
Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences: From Hippocrates to Harvey
1st Edition
By Roger French
May 10, 2000
The theme of this book is the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the seventeenth century. Central to this tradition were ancient texts and the respect accorded to the ancients themselves by the moderns, the teachers and practitioners...
The ‘Creed of Science’ in Victorian England
1st Edition
By Roy M. MacLeod
April 28, 2000
The nineteenth century, which saw the triumph of the idea of progress and improvement, saw also the triumph of science as a political and cultural force. In England, as science and its methods claimed privilege and space, its language acquired the vocabulary of religion. The new ’creed’ of science ...
Popes and Church Reform in the 11th Century
1st Edition
By H.E.J. Cowdrey
April 25, 2000
The essays in this volume centre upon the epoch-making papacy of Gregory VII (1073-85), and complement the author’s major study of the pope. They look at the formation and expression of Gregory’s ideas, notably in relation to simony and clerical chastity, and emphasise his religious motivation; ...
Essays on Iberian History and Literature, from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance
1st Edition
By Harold Livermore
April 10, 2000
The studies by Professor Livermore collected in this volume deal with the history and literature of Portugal and Spain in the period from the fifth century Germanic invasion of Roman Spain up to the vision of the Orient in Fernão Mendes Pinto. A prominent interest is the literature of the Middle ...
Juristes et droits savants: Bologne et la France médiévale
1st Edition
By André Gouron
April 10, 2000
This fourth collection by Professor André Gouron presents a set of twenty studies on jurisprudence, jurists and legal practice in the 12th and 13th centuries. The focus is on the schools and traditions of Bologna and in France, but the coverage includes canon, Roman and customary law. The first ...
Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries: Further Studies
1st Edition
By Giles Constable
March 20, 2000
The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organisation and spirituality, from its foundation in 910 until the end of the twelfth century. After an opening article on the early history of Cluny, relating it to ...
Clerical Orders in the Early Middle Ages: Duties and Ordination
1st Edition
By Roger E. Reynolds
December 24, 1999
The theology of sacred or clerical orders of the Latin Church in the high and later Middle Ages developed from an amalgam of texts written from late patristic antiquity through to the early 12th century. Such texts, many studied and edited here, include letters, tracts, sermons, liturgical ...
Kinship and Justice in Byzantium, 11th–15th Centuries
1st Edition
By R.J. Macrides
December 24, 1999
The articles in this volume deal with subjects which have received relatively little attention from students of the Byzantine empire. The studies are concerned with aspects of the law, both civil and canon, and with the kinship ties formed through godparenthood, adoption and marriage by the emperor...
Clerics in the Early Middle Ages: Hierarchy and Image
1st Edition
By Roger E. Reynolds
December 23, 1999
This volume covers two closely related themes. Essays in the first section deal with the varieties of clerics and their hierarchical arrangements in the churches of western Europe in the early Middle Ages, the formative period in which the ordering of clerics in the Western Church evolved. The ...