Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

Jean Richard's study explores the relationships between the crusaders and their heathen foes during the crusading period. The author shows how inseparable the crusades and the pilgrimages were.

Preface; The French Estates and the Corpus Mysticum Regni; When and why Hotman wrote the Francogallia; The monarchomach triumvirs: Hotman, Beza, and Mornay; 'Quod omnes tangit' - a post scriptum; Medieval jurisprudence in Bodin's concept of sovereignty; The presidents of Parlement at the royal funeral; Rules of inheritance.

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier" (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal.

Meercier's work shows that there is a unity in medieval astronomy in spite of the great diversity in cultural settings, which included South and Central Asia, the Middle East, Byzantium, and Europe.

Complements the previous collection of articles by the author, "Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics", and deals with the development of mathematics in Europe from the 12th century to about 1500. Including the discoveries of Johannes Regiomontanus in trigonometry and algebra, this book cover the knowledge and application of Euclid's "Elements".

The essays in this volume look at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses, investigating the dimensions of the noble's relationships with kin and others, questioning the practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions.

The articles in this volume describe the activities of people living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, generously defined, during the early modern period. Most are based, at least in part, on Portuguese materials.

Focuses on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are brought under review, and particular attention is given to relationships between towns and the Crown, to the evidence for migration into towns, and to the question of urban fortunes.

Seeks to delineate a histographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject matter of a new literary history. After preliminary essays marking out the field the volume is organised in three sections by authors, forms of discourse and disciplines.

Dante's "Comedy" is a puzzling poem because the author wanted to lead his readers to understanding by engaging their curiosity. While many obscure matters are clarified in the course of the poem itself, others have remained enigmas that have fascinated Dantists for centuries. This work explores different ways to read the "Comedy."

Combines research into various kinds of schools with overviews of European and especially Italian education. This volume explores the connections between education, religion, and politics at several levels and in different contexts. It compares Italian and German universities and assesses the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the latter.

The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. This book views these thinkers' efforts through the lens of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics.

Brings together a selection of the author's pioneering essays. Based on archival research, this book reflects his special interest in social mobility and use of the knighthoods for patronage. It also focuses on the role of the orders in the Portuguese maritime expansion and in India and Brazil, and on the medical profession.

Features a collection of articles that displays the author's reappraisal of the economic and socio-cultural history of the Jews of Italy during the Renaissance and the early modern period, focusing on their encounter with and incorporation into the Italian society that surrounded them.

Focusing on the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this title explores the movement's filiation and influence in various contexts. It emphasizes the evolutionary rather than the revolutionary character of the Enlightenment and its ability to change society by adaptation rather than demolition.

Identifies and collects the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music; this is the so-called Beneventan Chant, used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before the adoption there of the now-universal music known as Gregorian chant.

A collection of articles that deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns. It describes how Catholic or Protestant travellers learned about and accessed Muslim scholarly literature.

Collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century. This title deals with Socrates, Plato and the Old Academy, the Platonic revival and the 2nd century AD, and later Neoplatonism.

Comprises articles dealing with qur'anic and post-qur'anic aspects of the Prophet Muhammad's image and religious environment. This title analyses Muhammad's prophecy as reflected in the Qur'an and the post-qur'anic sources of sira (Muhammad's biography), tafsir (Qur'an exegesis), ta'rikh (historiography) and hadith (Muslim tradition).

A collection of Stephen Clucas' articles that addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. It includes essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee that show the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to mediaeval magical traditions.

A collection of essays, nine of the ten which appeared first between 1995 and 2005. It explores how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe.

Argues that Abbot Joachim of Fiore was a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux whose tertius status was reformist, not millenialist. This work focuses on apocalyptic thinking in the mid-fourteenth century with an analysis of Henry of Kerkstede's vade mecum, Cambridge Corpus Christi 404 and his first edition of Henry's "De antichristo et de fine mundi".

Deals with medieval instruments in general, as precious historical sources. This title focuses on individual astrolabes from the European Middle Ages and early Renaissance that are of singular historical importance. It presents a list of known medieval European astrolabes, ordered chronologically by region.