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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Myth and Fiction in Early Norse Lands
1st Edition
By Ursula Dronke
February 29, 1996
The first group of essays in this volume explores the links between early Norse literature, from the 9th to the 13th century, and the learned world of medieval Europe. In the second group the focus is upon the range of theme and style in Norse mythological poetry. Some of the key texts are ...
Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education
1st Edition
By William H. Brock
February 29, 1996
This set of essays - four, including the long title essay, being published here for the first time - reflects the author's long interest in the science and culture of the Victorian period. The first section examines the patronage of science and the activities of the British Association of the ...
Songs and Musicians in the Fifteenth Century
1st Edition
By David Fallows
February 29, 1996
The essays in this volume are concerned with song repertories and performance practice in 15th-century Europe. The first group of studies arises from the author's long-term fascination with the widely dispersed traces of English song and , in particular, with the most successful song by any English...
Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire
1st Edition
By Ursula Lamb
December 28, 1995
These essays deal with questions of navigation and, more broadly, the intellectual challenges posed by Spain’s acquisition of an empire across the Atlantic. Crudely, they had to find out what was where and how to get there. The first section of the volume looks at the 16th-century Sevillan ...
The Biological Standard of Living in Europe and America, 1700–1900: Studies in Anthropometric History
1st Edition
By John Komlos
December 28, 1995
One can think of the average height reached at a particular age by individuals as the historical record of their nutritional experience. Medical research has confirmed that nutritional status - and thus physical stature - is related to food consumption and therefore to family income, and therefore...
Marriage, Kinship and Power in Northern China
1st Edition
By Jennifer Holmgren
November 30, 1995
This volume focuses on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in a setting of interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects. The collection covers three major themes: the unique adaptability of steppe society in the face of threats to its politcal dominance; the way ...
Arabic Mathematical Sciences: Instruments, Texts and Transmission
1st Edition
By Richard Lorch
November 23, 1995
This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes. The first is that of the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic, then from Arabic into Latin), and close attention is paid to terminology and comparative vocabulary. The other themes are those ...
Etudes sur le christianisme arabe au Moyen Age
1st Edition
By Gérard Troupeau
November 02, 1995
This volume brings together a set of articles on the history of eastern Christianity and the Arabic traditions which, from the 8th century, gradually superseded those in Greek , Syriac and Coptic. In the first group of studies, Professor Troupeau looks at a number of particular aspects of Arabic ...
From Zoroastrian Iran to Islam: Studies in Religious History and Intercultural Contacts
1st Edition
By Shaul Shaked
September 14, 1995
The book deals with some major aspects of Zoroastrianism in Iran during the Sasanian period, including the important distinctions between the spritual and the material modes of existence, the idea that Ahreman, the Evil Spirit, does not belong in the material world, and the widely current myth of ...
Thinking about Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy
1st Edition
By John Hedley Brooke
September 14, 1995
In these articles Professor Brooke has aimed to expose and explore the many layers of philosophical debate that accompanied the development of chemistry in the 100 years from Priestley to Kekulé. During this period the foundations of our modern science were laid: Lavosier’s ’chemical revolution’, ...
Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Malcolm Barber
July 27, 1995
These articles seek to understand the attitudes and reactions of medieval society to both external threat and internal dissension, whether real or imagined. The crusaders encompass the Templars and the Knights of St Lazarus, members of military orders committed to the cause of perpetual battle for...
Liturgy in Byzantium and Beyond
1st Edition
By Robert F. Taft
July 27, 1995
Liturgical ritual was a major element of the Christian cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This was especially true of Byzantium, where court and church ritual, often intertwined, achieved a splendour unparalleled by any other aspect of civic or religious life. In this volume Robert ...