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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Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography
1st Edition
By H. Colin Slim
November 25, 2019
Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century. For understandable reasons, art historians sometimes neglect the role of music and, especially, that of musical notation when ...
Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The 'Darwinians' and their Critics
1st Edition
By Bernard Lightman
July 25, 2019
Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British ...
Islamic Art and Beyond: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume III
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
July 19, 2019
Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the ...
La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale
1st Edition
By Michel Huglo
July 10, 2019
This is the final volume in the set of four collections of Michel Huglo's articles to be published in the Variorum series, and focuses on medieval music theory. The point of departure for Huglo's research was his doctoral dissertation on tonaries, published in 1971: as a consequence, he studied the...
Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
1st Edition
By Bruce M.S. Campbell
June 13, 2019
The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked. The thirteen essays collected in this ...
Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Anton Scharer
June 12, 2019
This volume brings together a set of articles by Professor Anton Scharer dealing with the themes of conversion, court culture and royal representation in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe. It includes two previously unpublished papers, and another four specially translated into English for...
Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History
1st Edition
By Anne Middleton, edited by Steven Justice
June 12, 2019
Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the...
Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Duncan Fishwick
June 12, 2019
The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on ...
Islamic Astronomical Tables: Mathematical Analysis and Historical Investigation
1st Edition
By Benno van Dalen
June 12, 2019
This volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen. Van Dalen was the first historian of Islamic astronomy who made full use of the new possibilities of computers in the early 1990s. He implemented various statistical and numerical methods that can be ...
Les anciens répertoires de plain-chant
1st Edition
By Michel Huglo
June 12, 2019
The differences between Old-Roman, Ambrosian, Aquileian, Gallican, and Hispanic chant, and their interconnections with each other and the Gregorian chant occupied Michel Huglo in his early career, although he returned to these questions in the 1980s and 1990s. The present volume, the second in the ...
Studies on Eighteenth-Century Geology
1st Edition
By Rhoda Rappaport, edited by Kenneth L. Taylor
June 12, 2019
In a scholarly career spanning five decades, Rhoda Rappaport published perceptive analyses of science in the culture of early Modern Europe, France in particular, with strong emphasis on geology's early development. Of the sixteen papers in this volume, most focus on aspects of geology's ...
The Ottoman World, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 1660–1760
1st Edition
By Colin Heywood
June 12, 2019
Dr Heywood’s second volume of collected papers in the Variorum series brings together fourteen studies published between 2000 and 2010. They represent two of the main strands of his interests during the past decade: the era of Ottoman history dominated by the ministerial family of Köprülü; and ...