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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Early Performance: Courts and Audiences: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
1st Edition
By Sarah Carpenter, John J McGavin, Greg Walker
May 06, 2022
These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme...
Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531)
1st Edition
By Pamela Nightingale
May 06, 2022
The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the ...
Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture
1st Edition
By Evelleen Richards
April 29, 2022
Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and ...
Tobacco in Atlantic Trade: The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675–1775
1st Edition
By Jacob M. Price
July 08, 2021
This is the first of three volumes selected from the papers of Jacob M. Price. Focusing on the Atlantic tobacco trade in the 18th century, these studies illustrate the complex business history of this commercial enterprise and demonstrate its key importance in shaping economic relationships between...
Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Gary Vikan
July 05, 2021
In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage. He contextualizes these familiar categories of ...
Early Medieval Text and Image Volume 1: The Insular Gospel Books
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol A Farr, Jennifer O'Reilly, Elizabeth Mullins
June 30, 2021
When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of Iona...
Early Medieval Text and Image Volume 2: The Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells and Anglo-Saxon Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol A Farr, Jennifer O'Reilly, Elizabeth Mullins
June 30, 2021
When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of Iona...
History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis: Essays on Bede, Adomnán and Thomas Becket
1st Edition
Edited
By Máirín MacCarron, Jennifer O'Reilly, Diarmuid Scully
June 30, 2021
When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of Iona...
Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Hiroshi Takayama
June 30, 2021
This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one of the most fascinating but also one of the most neglected kingdoms in the medieval world. Some of ...
The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac
1st Edition
By John W. Watt
September 30, 2020
This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical writers of the period before providing ...
Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy: Essays on his Life, Method, Heritage
1st Edition
By Dimitri Gutas
June 30, 2020
The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life ...
The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
1st Edition
By Marjorie Reeves
December 17, 2019
The essays here collect the author’s further researches since the publication of her pathbreaking Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages in 1969. In part stimulated by responses to the book, they also show the extent to which the field then opened up has now expanded. In the last forty ...