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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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 ...
Innocent III: Studies on Papal Authority and Pastoral Care
1st Edition
By Brenda Bolton
June 30, 1995
Pope Innocent III has long been seen as a central figure in the history of the medieval papacy. The Imperial struggle, on which attention has most often focused, is not, however, Brenda Bolton’s direct concern in these articles; she has rather sought to uncover the spiritual motivation of Innocent’...
Money, Prices and Power in Poland, 16th–17th Centuries: A Comparative Approach
1st Edition
By Antoni Maçzak
June 30, 1995
The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices. In most cases, though, surviving data is hardly adequate for any extensive quantitative analysis of Polish economic history, and many of these articles endeavour in ...
Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa
1st Edition
By Brent D. Shaw
June 28, 1995
The studies collected in this volume cover three broad areas of the history of North Africa as part of the Roman Empire. Studies devoted to the history of 'political institutions' are followed by ones that detail aspects of interactions between nomad and sedentarist communities in the African ...
Cycles of Time and Scientific Learning in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Wesley M. Stevens
June 01, 1995
The calendar worked out by Bede remains essentially the one we still use today, yet the mathematical and scientific studies of the early medieval schools have been largely neglected in most discussions of the cultural and intellectual history of Latin Europe. These articles by Wesley Stevens are ...
The Limits of Absolutism in ancien régime France
1st Edition
By Richard Bonney
June 01, 1995
This selection of articles is organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France (’Absolutism’); the political crisis of the mid-17th-century (the ’Fronde’); and the development of royal finance. The author first considers the growth of the French state in its ...
From Ignatius Loyola to John of the Cross: Spirituality and Literature in Sixteenth-Century Spain
1st Edition
By Terence O'Reilly
May 04, 1995
The 16th century saw the rise of movements of religious reform which, in Spain as elsewhere, contributed to make the history of the period such a ferment. In these essays Terence O’Reilly is concerned with the writings produced by these movements, notably Illuminism, the early Jesuits, Erasmianism...
Plato’s Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino’s Metaphysics and its Sources
1st Edition
By Michael J.B. Allen
April 28, 1995
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance and the scholar responsible for the revival of Platonism. The translator and interpreter of the works of both Plato and Plotinus as well as of various Hermetic and Neoplatonic texts, Ficino was also a musician, ...
Mathematics and the Medieval Ancestry of Physics
1st Edition
By George Molland
April 13, 1995
The central theme of this volume lies in the medieval consciousness of mathematics, and the variety of strategies adopted to apply it in other areas, notably natural philosophy. In diachromic terms, Dr Molland considers ways in which ancient mathematics (particularly geometry) was assimilated in ...
Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia
1st Edition
By Joseph F. Fletcher
April 06, 1995
This book brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher (1934-84), a scholar widely acclaimed for the breadth and brilliance of his historical thought and for his almost unequalled linguistic competence. Fletcher’s mastery of the major languages and historical ...
Orphée et l’Orphisme dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine
1st Edition
By Luc Brisson
March 09, 1995
The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought. Yet what we know directly about Orphism comes from a scatter of isolated and often very short fragments quoted in the works of Platonists of the Roman period, notably Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author’...
Environment and Society in Roman North Africa: Studies in History and Archaeology
1st Edition
By Brent D. Shaw
February 23, 1995
The impact of a changing environment on human society and, conversely, the impact of man’s activities upon the environment are important and contentious subjects today. Climatic and environmental change have also been credited with bringing about major shifts in human history. One such case is ...