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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English Church Polyphony: Singers and Sources from the 14th to the 17th Century
1st Edition
By Roger Bowers
April 22, 1999
The theme of the essays in this volume is the identification of the resources which between c.1320 and 1642 the English church saw fit to provide for the performance of the music of its liturgy. Individual essays describe the music and the choirs of Canterbury and Lincoln Cathedrals, Winchester ...
Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain
1st Edition
By Sidney Pollard
April 22, 1999
This volume focuses on labour history in Britain, but brings in comparative material on the Continent, in particular inter-war Germany. Special attention is given to wages and living and working conditions in the 19th century, to Robert Owen and Co-operation, and to the modern trade union movement...
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
1st Edition
By Michael Brett
March 28, 1999
The book deals with the history of North Africa in the Middle Ages. It examines the formation of a society increasingly influenced by Arabic, as well as Islamic, culture after the Arab conquests of the 7th and early 8th centuries which gradually brought the Roman Christian civilisation of the ...
Pristina Medicamenta: Ancient and Medieval Medical Botany
1st Edition
By Jerry Stannard, Katherine E. Stannard
March 15, 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; the present...
China’s Seaborne Trade with South and Southeast Asia (1200–1750)
1st Edition
By Roderich Ptak
February 26, 1999
This second selection of studies by Professor Ptak focuses on Chinese maritime trade in the medieval and early modern periods. The first section deals with contacts between China and individual places, in particular Timor, the Sulu Islands, southern India and the islands of the Indian Ocean. ...
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600–1800
1st Edition
By John Gascoigne
January 28, 1999
This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the ...
Jews and Arabs in Pre- and Early Islamic Arabia
1st Edition
By Michael Lecker
December 28, 1998
Most of the articles in this volume belong to what can be described as the preparatory work which is prerequisite to the study of pre- and early Islamic history. Lecker’s interests include tribal Arabia (including tribes in the Yemen and Hadramawt), the history of the Arabian Jews, the biography of...
The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good: Essays on Ancient and Early Medieval Platonism
1st Edition
By Dominic O'Meara
December 22, 1998
The essays in this book discuss a number of the central metaphysical and ethical themes that engaged the minds of Platonist philosophers during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. One particular theme is that of the structure of reality, with the associated questions of the relations between...
European Approaches to North America, 1450–1640
1st Edition
By David B.Quinn
December 21, 1998
European Approaches to North America, 1450-1640 by David Quinn provides a series of insights into the early cartography and exploration of the North Atlantic and North America, and what was believed and written about this by Europeans. Its focus is the two hundred years from the mid-15th century. ...
Individuals and Institutions in Renaissance Italy
1st Edition
By D.S. Chambers
December 21, 1998
Human beings are the focus of this second collection of articles by David Chambers, which also contains two studies published for the first time. Constructed from a vast array of original sources they explore personal experience and motivation in connection with the public life of Renaissance Italy...
Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology: From Philo to al-Jazari – from Alexandria to Diyar Bakr
1st Edition
Edited
By David King, Donald R. Hill
December 21, 1998
These studies represent the major contributions to the history of Islamic technology during the second half of the 20th century beside Donald Hill’s separate publications on the mechanical devices of Pseudo-Apollonios, the Banu Musa and al-Jazari. A gifted linguist who was trained as a historian of...
The English Revolution: Politics, Events, Ideas
1st Edition
By Perez Zagorin
December 21, 1998
These essays concentrate on the social history and political thought of the English Revolution of 1640-1660, fields in which the author has been a leading contributor to historical discussion. Topics covered include the origin and course of the revolt against the government of Charles I, the social...