Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

Jerry Stannard assembled a body of work on the history of botany from Homer to Linnaeus. However, his work was cut short by his death, preventing the ultimate synthesis of knowledge which he had envisioned. This work and its companion "Pristina Medicamenta" bring together his articles and studies.

Investigates the scope, content and organization of academic instruction in philosophy and the arts at European schools and universities in the 16th and 17th centuries. This volume contains a number of articles based on archive materials.

This volume focuses on labour history in Britain. It examines wages and living and working conditions in the 19th century, co-operation and the modern trade union movement. The changes in the labour movement are a major concern of these essays.

A discussion of the Industrial Revolution, featuring three main themes. The first is the concept of the Revolution and its main characteristics. The second is the set of problems facing the early entrepreneurs and managers. Finally, it emphasizes industrialization as a regional phenomenon.

The essays in this volume centre upon the epoch-making papacy of Gregory VII (1073-85) and complement the author's major study of the Pope. They look at the formation and expression of Gregory's ideas, notably in relation to simony and clerical chastity, and emphasize his religious motivation.

These articles rely upon a wide range of evidence, trials and treatises relating not just to the Germanophone Waldenses of the 14th century but to the Waldenses throughout Latin Christendom between the 1170 and the 1530s.

It is often forgotten that many people in late antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek. These articles explore aspects of the interaction between these two literary cultures, exemplified in the works of two Christian poets, Ephrem the Syrian and Romanos the Melode.

This volume brings together Professor Cranz's published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of Renaisssance.

The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this text. It looks at the Norman relations with the Byzantine world, and includes several studies on the church.

The theology of sacred or clerical orders of the Latin Church in the high and later Middle Ages developed from an amalgam of texts written from late patristic antiquity through to the 12th century. Such texts, studied and edited in this volume, include letters, tracts, sermons and canon law pieces.

This volume focuses on two key centres of the South Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the "golden age" of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries. The second, deals with Benevento and the abbey of St Sophia, exploring its development.

The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organization and spirituality, from its foundation in 910, until the end of the 12th century.

A collection of essays starting with the author's research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late-16th and early-17th-century Florence. It extends to broader issues concerning music and patronage in the city, and thence to the commerce of music printing and the book trade.

These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine during the 12th and 13th centuries. The studies contribute to a greater understanding of the nature of Frankish settlement with regard to fortification and accommodation.

An exploration of Monteverdi and his contemporaries. It discusses the rise of the "new music" for solo voice and basso continuo in late 16th- and early 17th-century Florence, then moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice.

Bonnie J. Blackburn's analysis and exploration of music just prior to the Baroque period offers insights into a range of musicians, composers, critics and patrons of the arts in 15th- and 16th-century Europe.

An analysis of the transformation of the mediaeval European image of the world in the period following the great discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries. It focuses on geography, cartography and nautical science, addressing topics such as the concept of the terraqueous globe.