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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Papacy, Councils and Canon Law in the 11th–12th Centuries
1st Edition
By Robert Somerville
March 29, 1990
Professor Somerville deals here with the history of Latin Christianity at a crucial time - the century of the Gregorian reform movement and of the Investiture conflict between the papacy and the empire. The articles are concerned with the policies of the popes, as expressed in their letters and the...
Sur Gratien et les Décrétales
1st Edition
By Adam Vetulani, Waclaw Uruszczak
March 29, 1990
The publication of the Decretum of Gratian marked a fundamental step in the development of Church law: by collecting, classifying and systematising what had gone before, Gratian established a structure that led directly to the Code which rules the life of the Catholic Church today. Adam Vetulani ...
Princes et principautés russes, Xe-XVIIe siècles
1st Edition
By Wladimir Vodoff
September 30, 1989
It was only in 1547 that the ruler of Moscow, Ivan the Terrible, was formally proclaimed tsar, emperor, yet in reality the title had long been in use. Professor Vodoff’s concern in these articles has been to uncover the significance of such usages, as part of the political vocabulary of medieval ...
Saint Bonaventure: Études sur les Sources de sa Pensée
1st Edition
By Jacques Guy Bougerol
September 30, 1989
Dans l'histoire de la pensée chrétienne, saint Bonaventure se distingue comme le plus éminent philosophe franciscain du XIIIe siècle et une figure clé du développement de la théologie spirituelle de l'Église. Les quatre études qui composent ce volume présentent des analyses approfondies des ...
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...