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.
For further information about contributing to the series please contact Michael Greenwood at [email protected]
Britain, Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion, 1778–1914
1st Edition
By Barry M. Gough
June 10, 2019
From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'. The studies collected here trace how, under the influences of the Royal Navy and British statecraft,...
Christian Russia in the Making
1st Edition
By Andrzej Poppe
June 10, 2019
The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume. The focal themes are the political circumstances of the 'baptism of Russia' and the processes by which Rus' ...
Chronicles, Consuls, and Coins: Historiography and History in the Later Roman Empire
1st Edition
By R.W. Burgess
June 10, 2019
The papers collected in this volume focus on the sources for reconstructing the history of the third to fifth centuries AD. The first section, 'Historiography', looks at a small group of chronicles and breviaria whose texts are fundamental for our reconstruction of the history of the third and ...
Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond
1st Edition
By Claire Sotinel
June 10, 2019
The papers presented here explore in various ways the interactions between clerics and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes, involved in the christianization of the Late Roman world, form the theme of the first three sections. ...
Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean: Byzantium, the Crusader Levant, Egypt and Italy
1st Edition
By David Jacoby
June 10, 2019
The customary treatment of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to the mid-15th century emphasizes the predominance of western merchants and the commercial exchange of spices and eastern raw materials for western woollens and other finished products. The studies in this collection, the sixth by David ...
Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries: Music, Sources and Collections
1st Edition
By Richard Charteris
June 10, 2019
For more than three decades Richard Charteris has researched European music, sources and collections, focusing particularly on late Renaissance England, Germany and Italy. This group of essays, many concerning previously unknown or unexplored works and materials, covers the 16th and early to mid ...
Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition
1st Edition
By Ramzi Baalbaki
June 10, 2019
Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians. The essays included open new perspectives on the most authoritative work on Arabic grammar, Sibawayhi's tome or Kitab, on the relation between grammatical study and other...
Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy: Studies on Humanism and Philosophy in the 15th Century
1st Edition
By John Monfasani
June 10, 2019
The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek émigrés, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways. After an opening assessment of Greek migration to Renaissance Italy, the essays range from ...
Histoire du droit savant (13e–18e siècle): Doctrines et vulgarisation par incunables
1st Edition
By Robert Feenstra
June 10, 2019
This third selection of articles by Robert Feenstra complements the two previously published, continuing his studies of doctrines of private law and of texts related to university teaching from the 13th century into the early modern period. In the section on private law, some pieces deal with the ...
Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance
1st Edition
By Barbara C. Bowen
June 10, 2019
Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and ...
Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
1st Edition
By James J. Murphy
June 10, 2019
The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to ...
Latins, Greeks and Muslims: Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10th-15th Centuries
1st Edition
By David Jacoby
June 10, 2019
Trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The nature of these ...