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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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...
On the Economic Encounter Between Asia and Europe, 1500-1800
1st Edition
By Om Prakash
June 10, 2019
The history of the economic contacts between Asia and Europe dates back to at least the early years of the Common Era. But it was only after the overcoming of the transport technology barrier to the growth of trade between the two continents following the discovery by the Portuguese at the end of ...
Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries: The Essays of John A.F. Thomson
1st Edition
By John A.F. Thomson, edited by Graeme Small
June 10, 2019
This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses ...
Reform, Ecclesiology, and the Christian Life in the Late Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Thomas M. Izbicki
June 10, 2019
Philosophy was not an idle venture in the Renaissance. There were no clear-cut boundaries between theory and the practice. Theologians, jurists and humanists gave opinions on practical matters from within some larger intellectual context, and many held high office. Among the writers represented ...
Reform, Representation and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age
1st Edition
By H. Lawrence Bond, Gerald Christianson
June 10, 2019
While most works on Nicholas of Cusa concentrate either on his early career as author of the monumental 'Catholic Concordance' or on his later career as writer of remarkable philosophical/theological works such as 'On Learned Ignorance' and 'The Vision of God', the essays included here attempt to ...
Related Worlds - Studies in Jewish and Arab Ancient and Early Medieval History
1st Edition
By Moshe Gil
June 10, 2019
An element common to all the articles collected here is the attempt to make parallel use of sources from different cultures - Biblical and Talmudic Hebrew, Greek and Latin, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic - comparing these different but complementary sources in the investigation of topics in Jewish and ...
Religion in the History of the Medieval West
1st Edition
By John Van Engen
June 10, 2019
These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and ...