The celestial breadth of topics requires wide horizons to contain the 11 papers, some published as early as 1982 and some making their first appearance here. They consider such aspects as Habash al-Ha
In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not s
The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island wa
Constantinople originated in 330 A.D. as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. It
The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16tha€“18th centuries. They range from the evaluation o
This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principal
Vessey seeks to explain the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing by clerics, monks, and freelance ascetics in the Later Roman Empire of the fourth and fifty centuries, and what demands suc
This volume contains ten previously-published essays on the inquisitorial form of criminal prosecution used in the ecclesiastical and secular courts of medieval Europe. In the first six essays, Kelly
Contains 16 articles published between 1965 and 1996, beginning with several which consider whether musical instruments were excluded from medieval and Renaissance sacred music, or whether this view w
The emergence of Taoism during the 3rd through 8th centuries as China's indigenous higher religion affected all areas of culture. This volume, one of a pair by Paul Kroll (its companion dealing with o
This volume aims to clarify the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the continuing streng
The papers reprinted here all have to do with the very varied ways in which religion made an impact upon, or was intertwined with, political and social life. They span the period from 600 to 1200, wit
This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form
This collection contains seventeen articles published since 1980 (five are in French, the rest are in English) that concern the problems of space, society, and economy in such large Arab cities as Cai
Finding the recent publications on the military religious orders voluminous but somewhat uneven, Luttrell offers again 19 detailed his studies based on primary document and archival research that firs
A collection of articles written during the 1970s and early 1980s, arranged in sections on a geological text from antiquity, early ideas about minerals and mineral analysis, and the Earth, method, and
Six articles originally published 1981-86 explore the origin and development of commerce by Viking and Rus merchants through European Russia to the markets of Khazaria and the `Abbasid caliphate by an
Professor Emmer (pictured, but with no affiliation given) fills gaps in the neglected study of Dutch expansion in the Atlantic, notable for linking the production technology and capitalism of the firs
P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. It first looks at the Engli
Rejecting the assertions that there was no philosophy in Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, that philosophy started with the rediscovery of Aristotle in the 13th century, and that th
From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide rang
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical pe
The main themes of this volume are the explorations and geographical discoveries, and the economic circumstances that lay behind the establishment of commercial relations between Muscovite Russia and
This is the first in a set of four volumes by Grabar (historical studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Islamic art and architecture, Harvard U.), the eminence grise of Islamic art and
Sixteen essays by British musicologist Talbot explore the works of Venetian composers Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Bernedetto Marcello, and Bernedetto Vinaccesi within the social and historical contexts
A collection of essays written between the 1950s and the 1990s. Overarching themes are historiographical controversies and the history of political ideas. Topics include the social interpretation of t
Garsoian (emerita Armenian history and civilization and Byzantine history, Columbia U.) presents a third collection for the Variorum series, continuing the two main themes of the two-fold character of
Continuity and discontinuity as the twin illusions of cultural history provide the unifying theme of the 19 articles, reproduced from academic journals between 1982 and 2000. Franklin uses the metapho
The 24 articles of this collection, first published in scholarly journals between 1977-1997, contain findings and analysis, many gleaned from sources in papyri, on the society, Christianization, and e
Nine papers, originally published 1971-92, discuss general themes, specific manifestations, and and regional styles of architecture from the second century B.C. into the later Islamic period of the Mi
Delineates the two very different traditions of astronomy in medieval Islam: legal scholars watched the crescent moon to keep the calendar, and used shadows to keep the hours and direction of prayer,
Twenty articles by Hill (1922-94) represent some of his more important short accounts published 1973-95 on Islamic engineering in classical and medieval times. They include discussions of fine technol
This new collection by Nelson Minnich deals with the general councils of the Catholic Reformation in the late medieval and early modern periods. The volume opens with overviews of the various editions
Nancy Struever (Johns Hopkins U.) presents 13 papers by the late American philosopher Cranz, seven of them published for the first time and probably composed as sermons rather than written papers. Ear
The 18 papers focus on the period between Iconoclasm and the so-called Macedonian revival, which conventional scholarship sees as a century in which the East Roman state was on the high seas without a
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in t
The book deals with the history of North Africa in the Middle Ages. It examines the formation of a society increasingly influenced by Arabic, as well as Islamic, culture after the Arab conquests of th
Moving beyond the recent interest in the 1588 Spanish Armada incident, Loomie (history, Fordham U.) explores the policies of three Spanish Habsburg monarchs towards England in some of the less familia
This book brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher (1934a€“84), a scholar widely acclaimed for the breadth and brilliance of his historical thought and for his almost
