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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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set of articles on the history of eastern Christianity and the Arabic traditions which, from the 8th century, gradually superseded those in Greek , Syriac and Coptic.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 ...
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, ...