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Variorum Collected Studies


About the 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]

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Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century Essays in Iconography

Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography

1st Edition

By H. Colin Slim
November 25, 2019

Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century. For understandable reasons, art historians sometimes neglect the role of music and, especially, that of musical notation when ...

Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

1st Edition

By John Marshall, Philip Butterworth
September 30, 2019

Covering a period of nearly 40 years’ work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of ...

The Boundless Sea Writing Mediterranean History

The Boundless Sea: Writing Mediterranean History

1st Edition

By Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell
September 30, 2019

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One ...

The Power of Islam in Morocco Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

1st Edition

By Mohamed El Mansour
September 19, 2019

The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This Variorum volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam...

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

1st Edition

By Bernard Lightman
July 25, 2019

Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British ...

Islamic Art and Beyond Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume III

Islamic Art and Beyond: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume III

1st Edition

By Oleg Grabar
July 19, 2019

Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the ...

Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe

Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe

1st Edition

By Stuart Airlie
May 22, 2017

A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the ...

La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale

La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale

1st Edition

By Michel Huglo
July 10, 2019

This is the final volume in the set of four collections of Michel Huglo's articles to be published in the Variorum series, and focuses on medieval music theory. The point of departure for Huglo's research was his doctoral dissertation on tonaries, published in 1971: as a consequence, he studied the...

Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England

Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England

1st Edition

By Bruce M.S. Campbell
June 13, 2019

The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked. The thirteen essays collected in this ...

Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages

Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages

1st Edition

By Anton Scharer
June 12, 2019

This volume brings together a set of articles by Professor Anton Scharer dealing with the themes of conversion, court culture and royal representation in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe. It includes two previously unpublished papers, and another four specially translated into English for...

Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History

Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History

1st Edition

By Anne Middleton, edited by Steven Justice
June 12, 2019

Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the...

Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire

Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire

1st Edition

By Duncan Fishwick
June 12, 2019

The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on ...

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