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Variorum Collected Studies


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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]

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Continuity and Rupture in the Long Middle Ages Religion, Law and Interpretation

Continuity and Rupture in the Long Middle Ages: Religion, Law and Interpretation

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By Michael Edward Moore
August 20, 2024

The “Long Middle Ages” indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to understand factors of historical continuity binding this period together, and the periodic scenes of violent change which disrupted societies and ...

Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

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By Barbara Russano Hanning
August 20, 2024

Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came ...

Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

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By Clifford J. Rogers
August 06, 2024

This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other.  It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages, as well the military transition to the Early ...

Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium Art and Culture 330 – 1453

Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium: Art and Culture 330 – 1453

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By Liz James
August 01, 2024

This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. The first section is light and colour and mosaics, where four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of mosaics, as well ...

Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature Two Volume Set

Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Two Volume Set

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Edited By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
May 15, 2024

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings in two volumes on his central field of research on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence.  Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic...

Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature General Issues, Terms

Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms

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Edited By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
May 15, 2024

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes which showcases a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous ...

Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence

Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence

1st Edition

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Edited By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
May 15, 2024

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the second of two volumes which showcase a great number of Heinrichs’ writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was ...

Studies in Late Antiquity

Studies in Late Antiquity

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By David Neal Greenwood
March 29, 2024

Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle ...

Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede

Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede

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By Arthur Holder
March 14, 2024

Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together 17 essays by Arthur Holder exploring the theology and spirituality found in Bede’s biblical commentaries and homilies. The volume shows that Bede was both a masterful student of received tradition and a creative thinker ...

Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

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Edited By Peter Harrop, Philip Butterworth
January 29, 2024

In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-round' are described...

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context Patronage, Education, Narratives

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives

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By Sonja Brentjes
November 30, 2023

This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of...

Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam Idol Worshippers, Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam

Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam: Idol Worshippers, Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam

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By Michael Lecker
October 31, 2023

This volume includes 20 articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muḥammad and the history of early Islam, covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam, Muḥammad at Medina, Muḥammad and the Jews, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and the sīra and studies on early Islamic literature. The ...

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