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 in Later Greek Philosophy and Gnosticism
1st Edition
By Jaap Mansfeld
March 30, 1989
It is a curious fact that many of the sources for the Presocratic and Stoic philosophers are early Christian authors; similarly, one can even find an echo of Parmenides in a Gnostic treatise from Nag Hammadi. Such writers were often dependent for their knowledge on a whole chain of previous ...
Reappraisals in Renaissance Thought
1st Edition
By Charles B. Schmitt, Charles Webster
January 28, 1989
This third collection of Charles Schmitt’s articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life. It therefore contains his mature reflections on central issues in the fields of Renaissance philosophy and science, as well as important new ...
Dutch Merchants and Mariners in Asia, 1602–1795
1st Edition
By C.R. Boxer
June 30, 1988
Although later than the Portuguese in reaching the coasts of Asia, the Dutch became in the 17th and 18th centuries the most important of the European nations engaged in the Asian trade - in terms both of the quantity and value of the cargoes shipped, and the number of ports involved. In those ...
Ideas in the Medieval West: Texts and Their Contexts
1st Edition
By Valerie I.J. Flint
June 30, 1988
Without denying the real importance of the more ’traditional’ tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint’s objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors...
Latin Learning in Medieval Ireland
1st Edition
By Mario Esposito, Michael Lapidge
June 30, 1988
The field of Hiberno-Latin literature, a term coined to describe the Latin literature written in Ireland, or by Irishmen abroad, between 400 and 1500, was first defined by the late Mario Esposito. His work, too, revealed its vast extent and range, so enabling a significantly better understanding of...
Law and Jurisdiction in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Walter Ullmann, George Garnett
June 30, 1988
Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis. In the present volume are collected a number of the early articles which it was not possible to include in his previous collections, together with others published since those volumes appeared. ...
Lies, Language and Logic in the Late Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Paul Vincent Spade
June 30, 1988
’This sentence is false’ - is that true? The ’Liar paradox’ embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar ’insoluble’ problems, forms the subject of the first group of articles in this volume. In the following ...
The Monarchy, the Estates and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France
1st Edition
By J. Russell Major
June 30, 1988
Professor Major's aim in these articles has been to stimulate new assessments of the political, constitutional and social history of France in the 15th - 17th centuries. The first group examines the nature of the Renaissance monarchy, its strengths and its weaknesses and lack of effective controls...
Érasme: Sa pensée et son comportement
1st Edition
By Léon–E. Halkin
June 30, 1988
This volume of Professor Halkin's articles forms a complement to his recent biography of Erasmus of Rotterdam. The articles published here are concerned with his activities and his behaviour, and describe parts of what may be called his spiritual and intellectual itinerary, different aspects of ...
Espaces, pouvoirs et idéologies de l’Égypte médiévale
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Garcin
June 30, 1987
The first articles in this collection investigate patterns of settlement and communication in medieval Egypt, looking in particular at the growth, the planning and the buildings of Cairo and its precursors as capital of Egypt, and comparing this with the situation in the provinces. From this basis ...
Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan, 1543–1640
1st Edition
By C.R. Boxer
January 20, 1986
The relationship between God and Mammon forms a recurring theme in this volume, the third collection of Professor Boxer's articles to be published by Variorum. The previous two traced the Portuguese expansion through the Indian Ocean to South-East Asia, and in this one he moves on further, to the...
L’Empire ottoman du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle: Administration, économie, Société
1st Edition
By Robert Mantran
June 30, 1984
United by a common interest in the institutions, the social life and the commercial activities of the Ottoman empire in its heyday, these studies fall into three sections. The first concentrates upon Istanbul, the heart of the empire; the second covers the dealings between the Ottomans and foreign ...