Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

Deals with the development of representative institutions and monarchical power in Capetian France, focusing on the Capetians' dedication to reform and to principles of fiscal morality, and on their successes and failures in implementing these principles.

Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different ways that male practitioners were summoned to such occasions, the functioning of voluntary hospitals, the protocols underlying patient records.

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The legal treatises from Jerusalem, Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

A selection of articles that focuses on Byzantium after the Fourth Crusade and its relationship with Venice, particularly in the late Palaeologan period.

Discusses the handwriting of individual scribes, and the evidence script can provide of the circumstances of a book's production, the effect of punctuation and layout of text on the reader's interpretation of a work, and the provision and production of books for communities of readers, both clerical and academic.

The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images in fresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts.

This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author's initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery's sophisticated narrative structure.

The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters, medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty years.

This collection of fifteen articles, concentrating on the early Latin middle ages, explores the variety of medieval exegesis and highlights just how patchy has been our understanding of it. One of the significant developments in recent scholarship was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology.