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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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 ...
History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent, 1000–1200
1st Edition
By E.M.C. van Houts
November 28, 1999
The Normans in France and England left a rich legacy in historiography and literature, which is the subject of this volume. Dr van Houts first deals with the Scandinavian inheritance, which together with contacts with Danish England and Byzantium led to an interesting mix of pagan and ...
Structure in Architecture: History, Design and Innovation
1st Edition
By Rowland J. Mainstone
November 24, 1999
All buildings must stand. An adequate structure was as necessary for the simplest primitive hut as it is for the tallest or widest-spanning modern building. However, this requirement became more difficult to satisfy as designers became more adventurous and the experience already gained became ...
Form, Style and Meaning in Byzantine Church Architecture
1st Edition
By Hans Buchwald
November 22, 1999
Using detailed analyses of individual buildings as a point of departure, Professor Buchwald here examines various approaches to Byzantine architectural forms, and raises questions concerning the use of stylistic and other forms of analysis. One group of articles focuses on stylistic currents in ...
East European Nationalism, Politics and Religion
1st Edition
By Peter F. Sugar
November 16, 1999
The multi-national region of Europe situated between the German-speaking lands and those of the former Soviet Union has witnessed many varied manifestations of nationalism over the last two centuries. Professor Sugar has been in the forefront of those seeking to understand and explain these Eastern...
Renaissance Transformations of Late Medieval Thought
1st Edition
By Charles Trinkaus
November 02, 1999
Charles Trinkaus can be counted among the eminent intellectual and cultural historians of the Renaissance. This new collection of his articles brings together pieces published since 1982. The studies are concerned with Italian Renaissance humanists and philosophers who tended to affirm human ...
Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
1st Edition
By Jerry Stannard, Katherine E. Stannard
September 10, 1999
Jerry Stannard assembled a legendary collection of materials on the history of botany from Homer to Linnaeus, and his mastery of the field was acknowledged as incomparable. However, his work was sadly cut short by his death, and so did not result in the ultimate synthesis he envisioned; this volume...
Church and Culture in Early Medieval Armenia
1st Edition
By Nina G. Garsoïan
July 08, 1999
The articles here aim to develop and expand Professor Garsoïan’s earlier research on the bilateral influences on Early-Christian Armenia, between Byzantium and the Sasanians. On the one hand, they continue her examination of Armenia’s essentially Iranian society and institutions in the 4th-7th ...