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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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 ...
Law and Religion in Chaucer's England
1st Edition
By Henry Ansgar Kelly
June 10, 2019
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (...
Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale
1st Edition
By Michel Huglo
June 10, 2019
The origin and development of Western plainchant, and of the genres of liturgical book in which it is recorded, have occupied Michel Huglo throughout his long career, which has taken him to libraries in every corner of Europe and the United States. This volume, the first in a set of four to appear ...
Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform
1st Edition
By Martin J.S. Rudwick
June 10, 2019
The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance in the second quarter of the 19th century because he ...
Markets, Trade and Economic Development in England and Europe, 1050-1550
1st Edition
By Richard Britnell
June 10, 2019
England's economy between 1050 and 1550 mirrored that of much of continental Europe in its growing dependence upon trade over both short distances and long. The essays in this collection are the fruit of forty years of research into the complex and interrelated issues involved. Describing this ...
Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England
1st Edition
By Andrew G. Watson
June 10, 2019
Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution of the religious houses and visitations of the ...
Medieval Narbonne: A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Caille, Kathryn L. Reyerson
June 10, 2019
This volume presents a series of studies by Jacqueline Caille, acknowledged as the leading expert on medieval Narbonne, which chart the development and history of the city from its Roman origins to its decline in the late Middle Ages. They focus on the period of Narbonne's heyday, from the mid-11th...