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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Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture
1st Edition
By Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
January 09, 2023
Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. The book addresses multiple issues related to the histories of science and culture during the Ottoman era. Most of the articles contained in this volume were the first ...
Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe: Studies in Sources and Source Criticism
1st Edition
By David S. Bachrach, Bernard S. Bachrach
January 09, 2023
Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe brings together fourteen articles by eminent historians David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach. Crucial to the writing of medieval military history is a thorough understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the available source ...
Medieval Greece: Encounters Between Latins, Greeks and Others in the Dodecanese and the Mani
1st Edition
By Michael Heslop
December 19, 2022
Medieval Greece brings together twelve articles by historian Michael Heslop, showcasing his long-standing interest in the medieval castles of Greece. Ten of the articles in this volume focus on the Dodecanese islands, mainly Rhodes, at the time of their rule by the Hospitallers during the period ...
Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra F. Johnston, Pamela M. King
December 19, 2022
This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production ...
Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers
1st Edition
By Felice Lifshitz
December 19, 2022
Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the past were created and revised in Normandy during the central Middle Ages. ...
Aspects of Recusant History
1st Edition
Edited
By Jos Blom, T.A. Birrell, Frans Korsten, Frans Blom
August 01, 2022
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924–2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English and American Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very ...
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...