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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Health and Healing in Early Modern England: Studies in Social and Intellectual History
1st Edition
By Andrew Wear
July 23, 1998
The opening studies in this volume, on the revival of Galenic medicine in Continental Europe, provide the context for its focus - England in the 17th century. The author covers the discovery of the circulation of the blood, but it is the underlying components of health and medicine that form the ...
The Temple, the Church Fathers and Early Western Chant
1st Edition
By James McKinnon
June 18, 1998
The articles here deal with liturgical music. Two topics receive special attention: the curiously negative role that musical instruments play in ancient cult music and the development of ecclesiastical song in early Christianity. The first series of articles treats classical Greek ethical notions ...
Gospel Books and Early Latin Manuscripts
1st Edition
By Patrick McGurk
June 10, 1998
Gospel books are the most numerous and important of surviving early medieval Latin manuscripts, and these essays represent stages in an examination of their structure, arrangement, contents, and texts. New details and aspects of the books, links between Gospel texts of different regions and ...
Society, the City and Industry in the Balkans, 15th–19th Centuries
1st Edition
By Nikolai Todorov
May 28, 1998
This volume deals first with the social and economic development of the Balkans under Ottoman rule. Particular attention is given to the demography of the region, and to questions of urban growth and ethnic and religious compostition. Professor Todorov is also concerned to examine the impact of the...
Decretals and the Creation of the 'New Law' in the Twelfth Century: Judges, Judgements, Equity and the Law
1st Edition
By Charles Duggan
April 23, 1998
In this second volume of studies on 12th-century canon law, Charles Duggan emphasises the European context of the emergence of the ius novum, the new law of the Western church, based on specific cases and informed by the academic learning of the schools where canon law was taught as a scholarly ...
The Islamic World, Russia and the Vikings, 750–900: The Numismatic Evidence
1st Edition
By Thomas S. Noonan
April 23, 1998
Professor Noonan here sets out to examine what Islamic silver coins (dirhams) reveal about the great trade between the Islamic world, European Russia, and the Baltic during the early Viking Age. Particular attention is devoted to the origins of this international commerce and the role of such ...
Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Donald Holzman
March 26, 1998
This volume aims to account for the tremendous changes in the attitudes towards the world and towards themselves that can be seen in the works of Chinese writers in the early centuries of the Christian era. How do the massive conversion of such a large part of the population to Buddhism and the ...
Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World
1st Edition
By Edward S. Kennedy
March 05, 1998
This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary models, and then deals with astrological calculations. Throughout the author emphasises the importance of advances in mathematics for understanding the development of ...
Church and Faith in the Patristic Tradition: Augustine, Pelagianism, and Early Christian Northumbria
1st Edition
By Gerald Bonner
March 01, 1998
The articles in this volume complement and continue work brought together on the author's previous collection, God's Decree and Man's Destiny. The first part, focusing on Augustine, is largely devoted to the Pelagian controversy, but also includes an examination of Augustine's concept of ...
Géographie et culture. La représentation de l’espace du VIe au XIIe siècle
1st Edition
By Patrick Gautier Dalché
December 15, 1997
These studies aim to portray the geography and cartography of the early Middle Ages (with some reference forward to the 13th-14th centuries) from the viewpoint of cultural history; the medieval compilations are seen as witnesses to the reception of late antique learning. The author would single out...
Pour une histoire des Alpes, Moyen Age et Temps Modernes
1st Edition
By Jean-François Bergier
December 15, 1997
The Alps, as Professor Bergier shows in this selection of his work, should not be considered an impassable barrier, nor an isolated region, but rather as an integral part of the history of Europe. The lowlanders’ typical view of the mountains as fearful heights to be crossed, and the image of those...
Scientific Culture and Urbanisation in Industrialising Britain
1st Edition
By Ian Inkster
December 15, 1997
Ian Inkster’s intent in these studies is to move beyond the high culture and expertise of science towards the construction of the culture of urban communities. The work draws on a mass of detailed research and focuses on Britain's social and cultural advantages over other industrialising nations ...