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]
Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100–1550
1st Edition
By David Abulafia
December 27, 2000
This third volume by David Abulafia looks at the interactions between territories, peoples and religions across the Mediterranean, and at the influence of the Mediterranean economy on the world beyond. Topics addressed are trade across the Christian-Muslim frontier; the relative importance of local...
Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition
1st Edition
By Dimitri Gutas
December 14, 2000
Professor Gutas deals here with the lives, sayings, thought, and doctrines of Greek philosophers drawn from sources preserved in medieval Arabic translations and for the most part not extant in the original. The Arabic texts, some of which are edited here for the first time, are translated ...
Aristotelian Logic, Platonism, and the Context of Early Medieval Philosophy in the West
1st Edition
By John Marenbon
December 05, 2000
Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism. The articles in this volume question this view, by cataloguing, describing and investigating the tradition of Aristotelian logic in the period, examining its influence on authors usually placed ...
Monteverdi and his Contemporaries
1st Edition
By Tim Carter
November 28, 2000
This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The ...
Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West: Revivals, Crusades, Saints
1st Edition
By Gary Dickson
November 21, 2000
Collective religious enthusiasm was a surprisingly many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe. Amongst the forms it took were remarkable revivalist movements like the flagellants of 1260; popular crusades like the often mythologized ’children’s crusade’ of 1212 and the '...
Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance: The Impact of the Great Discoveries
1st Edition
By W.G.L. Randles
October 30, 2000
The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr ...
Essays on the Industrial Revolution in Britain
1st Edition
By Sidney Pollard
October 28, 2000
This volume has three main themes. First, there is the concept of the Industrial Revolution and its main characteristics, and the author defends both the term and the notions behind it against attempts to play down their significance. A particular interest is the comparison of what happened to ...
Ideas and Contexts in France and England from the Renaissance to the Romantics
1st Edition
By J.H.M. Salmon
September 19, 2000
These essays examine the thought and works of a series of writers on political thought, religion, historiography and literature, from the 16th century to the 19th. Throughout, the author is concerned to situate individual thinkers in the context of their times and, in many of the essays, to ...
Cardinal Pole in European Context: A via media in the Reformation
1st Edition
By Thomas F. Mayer
August 04, 2000
Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was one of the most important international figures of mid-16th century Europe: principal antagonist of Henry VIII, papal diplomat, legate to the council of Trent, and nearly successful candidate for pope. But even more significant than his political actions is ...
Figures in the Landscape: Rural Society in England, 1500–1700
1st Edition
By Margaret Spufford
July 28, 2000
How did the ’peasantry’ of early modern England react to the Reformation and to subsequent changes in their churches? Were they involved in founding dissenting churches? Could they even read? And if so, what was available for them? This volume brings together a key set of papers on such subjects by...
Women’s Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts
1st Edition
By Monica H. Green
July 28, 2000
In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have ...
Politics, Law and Counsel in Tudor and Early Stuart England
1st Edition
By John Guy
July 05, 2000
This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical and legal humanism. Main themes include 'imperial' monarchy and the theory of 'counsel', Parliament ...