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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Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy
1st Edition
By G.A. Loud
July 08, 1999
The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th-12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this volume. Norman relations with the Byzantine world are also an important topic. Several studies directly examine questions of continuity and ...
From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Sebastian Brock
June 28, 1999
It is often forgotten that many people in Late Antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek. The 16 articles in this volume explore different aspects of the interaction between these two literary cultures, exemplified in the works of two of the greatest Christian poets and hymnographers of the ...
Studies in Gregorian Chant
1st Edition
By Ruth Steiner
June 28, 1999
Manuscript sources and the diversity of the musical traditions they preserve form the focus of this collection of eighteen essays on Gregorian Chant. Ruth Steiner investigates chants of various types: invitatory tones and antiphons, responsories and prosulae, Mass chants and chants of the Divine ...
The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces, 1306–1462
1st Edition
By Anthony Luttrell
May 28, 1999
This fourth collection of Dr Luttrell’s studies on the military order of the Hospital concerns its activities on the island of Rhodes, acquired between 1306 and 1310, where it struggled to contain the naval aggression of the Anatolian Turks and to settle the island and organise its society and ...
Venetian Music in the Age of Vivaldi
1st Edition
By Michael Talbot
May 04, 1999
This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical institutions (academies and conservatories), nine with the life and works of Antonio Vivaldi, and five ...
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...