Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

These essays examine the history of production and consumption in the Low countries between the 13th and 16th centuries. This theme runs through all of the essays, which examine the state of the economy and social structures, the cloth industry and the consumption of drink.

This is the final volume in the set of four collections of Michel Huglo's articles to be published in the Variorum series, and it focuses on medieval music theory. It closes with a bibliography of Michel Huglo complementing that published in 1993 and a summary list of his reviews of books on music and liturgy.

The most damaging of the wars fought between East Rome and Sasanian Persia brought the classical phase of west Eurasian history to a dramatic close. This book explores the balance of power between the two empires, look at events through Roman, Armenian and Arab eyes, and focuses on the climax of the final conflict in the 620s.

Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. This title brings together fourteen articles that reflect her enduring interest in Byzantium's political, ideological, and commercial relations with its neighbours.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. This title reflects thirty years of research into these pioneers of Humanism and offers insights into forms of Renaissance.

Presents a collection of essays that cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. This title features essays that are concerned with the teaching of prose composition, especially the art of letter writing known as the ars dictaminis.

Brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which the author discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances.

Presents a collection of thirteen essays that reveal the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. This title explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards.

Presents a collection of articles that represents investigation of themes broached on the movements of Cardinal John of Abbeville, and the related subjects of historiography and historians, the interplay of history and government, and aspects of sacral monarchy.

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English.

Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation. This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna.--