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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Ideas and Contexts in France and England from the Renaissance to the Romantics
1st Edition
By J.H.M. Salmon
September 19, 2000
These essays examine the thought and works of a series of writers on political thought, religion, historiography and literature, from the 16th century to the 19th. Throughout, the author is concerned to situate individual thinkers in the context of their times and, in many of the essays, to ...
Cardinal Pole in European Context: A via media in the Reformation
1st Edition
By Thomas F. Mayer
August 04, 2000
Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was one of the most important international figures of mid-16th century Europe: principal antagonist of Henry VIII, papal diplomat, legate to the council of Trent, and nearly successful candidate for pope. But even more significant than his political actions is ...
Figures in the Landscape: Rural Society in England, 1500–1700
1st Edition
By Margaret Spufford
July 28, 2000
How did the ’peasantry’ of early modern England react to the Reformation and to subsequent changes in their churches? Were they involved in founding dissenting churches? Could they even read? And if so, what was available for them? This volume brings together a key set of papers on such subjects by...
Women’s Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts
1st Edition
By Monica H. Green
July 28, 2000
In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have ...
Politics, Law and Counsel in Tudor and Early Stuart England
1st Edition
By John Guy
July 05, 2000
This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical and legal humanism. Main themes include 'imperial' monarchy and the theory of 'counsel', Parliament ...
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 ...