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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Hungary and the European Economy in Early Modern Times
1st Edition
By Zsigmond Pául Pach
October 20, 1994
In the age of overseas colonization and rise of intercontinental trade, Western Europe’s intercontinental trade with East-Central Europe did not diminish either, but considerably increased in both quantity and significance. Commercial relations within Europe also became a substantial factor in the...
Etudes d'astronomie byzantine
1st Edition
By Anne Tihon
October 13, 1994
Byzantine science has been a largely neglected subject: Byzantinists, whether dealing with the history or the literature, have most often been deterred by the technicalities; historians of Greek science have been more attracted to earlier periods. Yet, even if science in the Byzantine world may ...
Sacred and Secular: Studies on Augustine and Latin Christianity
1st Edition
By Robert A. Markus
October 08, 1994
This collection brings together a set of studies on the notions of the sacred and the secular held by early Christian writers, especially Augustine and Gregory the Great, and on their relationships in actual practice in Late Antiquity. Problems of heresy and orthodoxy in Latin Christianity, ...
Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th–9th centuries
1st Edition
By Rosamond McKitterick
September 29, 1994
The focus of this volume is the book production of the Frankish regions of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. By means of a detailed scrutiny of individual manuscripts, groups of manuscripts, and categories of texts, Dr McKitterick shows how they can be used to throw light on questions such ...
Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries
1st Edition
By David Ayalon
September 29, 1994
This fourth selection of studies by David Ayalon takes up the theme of the preceding volume, that of the opposition between the Abode of Islam and the external world, the Abode of War. Similarly, a number of the articles are concerned with the impact of outsiders, moving into the world of Islam, ...
Law and Liturgy in the Latin Church, 5th–12th Centuries
1st Edition
By Roger E. Reynolds
September 29, 1994
The two themes brought together in this volume - the canon law and the liturgy of the early medieval Latin Church - have close links, as these articles reveal. At the basis of this lies that fact that the collections and manuscripts with which Professor Reynolds is concerned provide the source ...
Religion paysanne et religion urbaine en Toscane (c.1280–c.1450)
1st Edition
By Charles M. de la Roncière
September 29, 1994
The subject of this volume is that of the establishment and embedding in the Tuscan countryside, and especially round Florence, of the new forms of piety propagated above all by the Mendicant orders. The volume brings together Professor de La Roncière's major articles on this topic, both detailed ...
En rémission des péchés: Recherches sur les Systèmes Pénitentiels dans l'Eglise Latine
1st Edition
By Cyrille Vogel, Alexandre Faivre
July 07, 1994
The studies by Cyrille Vogel (1919-1982) collected here provide a detailed exposition of the penitential system of the Latin Church and its evolution during the Middle Ages. They complement in this way the general treatment of his books and document the stages of the system's development - from ...
La connaissance de l’Islam dans l’Occident médiéval
1st Edition
By Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny, Charles Burnett
June 30, 1994
This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny’s selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works will be included in a further ...
Pères saints et culte chrétien dans l’Eglise des premiers siècles
1st Edition
By Victor Saxer
June 30, 1994
The Christianity of Roman North Africa provides the setting for many of the articles collected here. Several focus on the writings of Cyprian and Augustine, others on the nomenclature of the martyrs of the 2nd-3rd centuries and their cult. The development of this cult and the cult of relics, both...
Robert Grosseteste, Exegete and Philosopher
1st Edition
By James McEvoy
June 30, 1994
Robert Grosseteste was one of the most eminent and universal scholars of his time. At his death, in 1253, as Bishop of Lincoln, he left behind him a literary heritage, which contemporary scholarship is still trying to come fully to terms with. This volume offers a series of studies concerning ...
Studies in Armenian Literature and Christianity
1st Edition
By R.W. Thomson
June 30, 1994
Professor Thomson deals here with the origins of Armenian Christian literature and its development as an individual literary culture. At the same time, these studies make available to students of Patristics and Byzantine history some of the wealth of information preserved in the Armenian sources....