Bücher der Reihe Variorum Collected Studies

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.

The printed debut of the "Canzone Villanesca Alla Napolitana" occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. This volume traces the Neapolitan origins of this song form, and its subsequent development.

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.--

Argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. This book presents a collection of essays that deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, physicist John Tyndall, and philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer.

The essays in this collection deal with a form of criminal prosecution developed by Pope Innocent III and perfected at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. They aim to throw light on how procedural jurisprudence developed and provide a background for study of present-day concerns about due process.

Collects the essays that present many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps and deal with the famous humanist of the early 16th century, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and natural philosophy, a term covering many subjects associated with natural science.

Focuses on two types of historiography: early medieval narratives, with special attention to Bede's "Historia Ecclesiastica"; and printed maps designed to portray and teach history, with special attention to the ubiquitous 'map of the barbarian invasions'.

This collection of papers also includes "The Study of Medieval Liturgy", "Lanfranc's Supposed Purge of the Anglo-Saxon Calendar" along with "Why do Medieval Psalters Have Calendars?", "St Hugh as a Liturgical Person" and "Prescription and Reality in the Rubrics of Sarum Rite Service Books".