Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. This title features studies that cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era.

A collection of studies that focuses on the person and the image of Ming Taizu, the founder of the Ming dynasty, and a powerful, brutal and autocratic emperor who has had a significant impact not only in late imperial China, but also in East Asia, over the last six centuries.

This collection of articles explores changes in images of the French monarchy propagated in ceremonies that townspeople and officials created for their kings. Bryant looks at royal entrées as massive processional and street theaters in which members of the kingdom both discoursed with and exalted the king in a multiplicity of ritual forms, symbolism and public art. These ceremonies personalized the idea of the state as embodied in the king, and they publicized rights and authority, new historical or mythological themes, innovative styles of monumental architecture and art, and theories of ideal and shared government.

A collection of articles that provides examinations of the religious motivations behind Roman Catholic efforts to develop a new mechanical philosophy, theories of the soul and immaterial spirits, and theories of active matter.

A third collection of articles that covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of "The Great Tradition". It covers subjects that range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond.

Focuses on three areas: the christology of the Church of the East, the phraseology of the invocations to the Holy Spirit in the Syriac liturgical tradition, and two early Commentaries on the Liturgy. This fourth collection also contains a series of studies of the wording of the invocations to the Holy Spirit to be found in Syriac liturgical texts.

Sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers. This work examines the effect of Medici patronage and the impact of Savonarola, and also the careers of individual composers such as Heinrich Isaac.

Presents a study of Byzantine aristocracy of the 8th-12th centuries. This collection examines the evolution of aristocratic families and the composition of this group, their relative importance to landholding and public office and the notion of 'civilian' and 'military' families, and patterns of inheritance.

A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. This book aims to bring together twenty-two items, exemplifying such multi-faceted viewpoints on the world of sounds and its virtue.

Presents articles showing usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. This book includes papers that range more widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. It views workings of dynastic political power in social and political context.

A selection of articles with two themes such as: the process of nation formation during 19th century, especially in the case of 'smaller' European nations, and social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern, feudal and traditional society to a modern capitalist one and the uneven pace of this change in West and East of Europe.

Collects the author's revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times onwards. This volume focuses on the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and on developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin.

Throughout his career, Robert Brentano attempted to understand the nature and 'style' of ecclesiastical institutions in Italy and the British Isles. This work brings together articles that examine the writing of history by both medieval authors and modern historians, and includes Brentano's reflections on his own practice as an historian.

A collection of articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe that focuses on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century.

Includes sixteen studies that deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. This book emphasizes on the 15th century and especially on the painter Angelos. It also explore the status of Cretan painter in society.

Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe. The main medium through which his message was disseminated was the written word, using the universal western language of Latin. This work features papers that look at various aspects of that dissemination.

Analyzes the guild system in Byzantium and the West. This book investigates the process of price formation in Byzantium. It also devises approaches to fathom the conceptual basis, institutional parameters, market organization and structures, and market dynamics which shaped price determination.

Brings together 14 shorter essays from various journals and symposia. This title presents studies of how singing in church strayed from artistic control during its neglect in the 16th and 17th centuries, how the vernacular 'fuging tune' of West Gallery choirs grew up, and how individuals like Playford and Stainer set about artistic standards.

This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994). Six of the essays reprinted here continue her argument that feudalism is unhelpful to understanding medieval society, while eight more discuss other aspects of medieval society.

These essays analyze the attitudes and reactions of medieval society to external threat and internal dissension. The crusaders encompass the Templars and the Knights of Saint Lazarus; military orders; and reluctant secular knights. The heretics cover a range of "enemies" of the Church.

These eight studies emphasise the importance of Flanders to medieval economic history as a focus of demand for grain and industrial raw materials. It shows that imports to supply the bloated internal markets were more important in establishing the Flemish cities than cloth exports.

Life in the Mediterranean city of Dubrovnik is the focus of this book. It analyzes attitudes of both patricians and lower classes, the position of the authorities on homosexuals and Jews, Dubrovnik's role as a maritime state and interaction with Latin and Slav cultures of Renaissance Dalmatia.

This volume presents a detailed analysis of the "reconquest" of North Itlay an Illyricum from the homeist dogma put in place by Constans II and affirmed by the Council of Rimini in 359-60.

The first section of this book on China's trade deals with contacts between China individual places, like Timor, southern India and the Sulu Islands. The second part looks at trade in specific commodities such as sandalwood, coral, horses, tortoise-shell, ebony, cloves, and tea.

A study of Galenism, a rational medical system embracing all health- and disease-related matters, and the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It deals with a range of issues regarding the historical Galen and late-mediaeval and Renaissance Galenism.