Bøger i Variorum Collected Studies serien

A study of Galenism, a rational medical system embracing all health- and disease-related matters, and the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It deals with a range of issues regarding the historical Galen and late-mediaeval and Renaissance Galenism.

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.

A collection of essays that focuses on the earliest phase of the schism, from persecution to the Synod of Tyre (335). It explains the chronology of the schism, the decisions of Nicaea, the internal organisation of the parallel church, and the tensions in Alexandria caused by its repression, as well as interpretative problems posed by the sources.

A collection of essays concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

Byzantine chronicles have traditionally been regarded as a somewhat inferior form of Byzantine history writing, especially in comparison with 'classicizing' historians.

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.

A collection of articles brings together a number of working papers which were significant in the development of the author's understanding of patristic exegesis. It demonstrates her scholarly approach to patristic material, whereby careful attention is paid to actual texts from the past.

What did the pagan gods mean to a Christian poet of the fifth century? What did Paul quote when he thought he was quoting Greek poetry? What did Socrates mean to the Christians, and can we trust their memories when they appeal to lost fragments of the Presocratics? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he dies?

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.

The eighteen papers collected in this volume - fifteen of which are published in English for the first time - explore the transformations of religious practices between the third and the fifth centuries in the Western part of the Roman Empire. The first group of papers focuses on the sermons and letters of Augustine of Hippo.

H. C. Erik Midelfort has carved out a reputation for innovative work on early modern German history, with a particular focus on the social history of ideas and religion. This collection pulls together some of his best work on the related subjects of witchcraft, the history of madness and psychology, demonology, exorcism.

This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer's music, reflecting the author's interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of making critical editions. All but one of these essays was originally published over a time span of twenty years in journals.

This collection of studies on the Roman Near East represents Professor Kennedy's academic assessment of the region, which began with his doctoral thesis on the contribution of Syria to the Roman army. Although the thesis was never published, several articles owe their genesis to work done then or soon after and are included here (VI, VII, IX.

Richard Sorabji here presents a selection of his previously-published papers on four topics in ancient philosophy: two on the mind-body relation, nine on sense perception, and one each on moral conscience and on the will.

This book brings together a selection of Kevin Corrigan's works published over the course of some 27 years. Its predominant theme is the encounter with otherness in ancient, medieval and modern thought and it ranges in scope from the Presocratics-through Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and the late ancient period, on the one hand.

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.--