The central figure in this volume is that of Gratian, whose monumental compilation of canon law sparked off the revival of legal studies in the medieval West. In other collections of essays, Stephan
The fifteen studies assembled here grew out of research on south-Italian ordinary chants and tropes for the multi-volume series Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II, edited by John Boe in collaboration wit
Boston College professor Weiss has gathered essays from a variety of publications for this collection of his work on humanist biography. He has provided an in-depth introduction along with updates of
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
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
This selection of articles, published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at GA?ttingen, opens with studies on his teacher, Percy Ernst Schramm, and his contribution to the study of the
The papers presented here explore in various ways the interactions between clerics and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes, involv
Mamluks and Crusaders: Men of the Sword and Men of the Pen brings together a series of studies, based mainly on medieval Arabic sources, of Middle Eastern history and society in the late Middle Ages.
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 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 book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whol
Professor Stuard collects here a set of her articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages, beginning with her first, published in 1975. The first section, on marriage, opens with an exploration of t
The subject of all of the articles by the late Patricia Labalme reprinted here is Renaissance Venice. These papers were published between 1955-1999 in various journals and collections. They fit well t
The collection of 13 previously published articles offers a one-stop resource to the emblematic works of the field, spanning 40 years, from James T. Monroe's 1972 "Oral Composition in Pre-Islamic Poet
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
This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po). Collecting eleven essays by this leading scholar of Chinese poetry, the volume
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 collection of articles previously published in various journals in the early 21st century offers a detailed source for the study of precious objects produced and exchanged among rulers, courtiers
The essays reproduced in this volume analyze the guild system in Byzantium and the West, and investigate for the first time the process of price formation in Byzantium. Innovative approaches are devis
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
The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific focus of the third section here. Out of this grew the
Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending t
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 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
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 studies included in the present collection by Elizabeth Zachariadou are concerned with the long period of transition from the Byzantine Empire to its successor, the Ottoman Empire. Among the theme
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 volume brings together a set of key articles, along with a new introduction to contextualize them, on the role of Turkish peoples in the Western Asiatic world up to the 11th century. Such topics
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
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
Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), long known in the West as Avicenna, was at the center of the school of Islamic philosophy that inherited and adapted Greek thinking from pre-Socratic to late Hellenic times, sa
In this fourth volume of collected works, the articles published by Grabar on the city of Jerusalem are presented. The essays present lengthy treatment of the Dome of the Rock, the Haram al-Sharif, an
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
A prodigious historian of Byzantium, Oikonomides is spoken of in the past tense, which might explain why this fourth Variorum collection is described as his last. The 28 articles from the tail end of
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
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 brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they i
The long 11th century, extending from the mid-10th to the early-12th, are the temporal scope of the nine papers, reproduced from publication between 1978 and 2003. White mainly describes how nobles, i
Two major themes run through these studies by Gad Freudenthal: science and philosophy in the medieval Hebrew tradition; and the repercussions of Greek theories of matter in the medieval Arabic and Heb
