Bücher der Reihe Variorum Collected Studies

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'.

The material in this volume has been arranged under four main headings: 'Origins and Context'; 'Secular Culture Under the Umayyads'; 'Fatimid Egypt and the Muslim West'; and 'The Muslim East'.

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.

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.

Presents twelve studies which are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. This book shows how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they could not see.

Includes ten essays, which contribute to the re-assessment of how the medieval 'backwardness' of English agriculture was transformed into modern 'progress'.

Includes essays that approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading.

Features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. This work also includes essays that interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery, and gendered constructions of maternity.

Features articles that analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting. This work also shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants.

Explores problems in Fatimid history and historiography, many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty within the empire and outside. This work also looks at issues in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam.

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.

Presents a selection of studies devoted to the medieval period, centering especially on the T'ang dynasty. This volume includes examinations of landscape and mountain imagery in the poetry of the 'High T'ang' period in the mid-8th century. It includes two articles on birds in medieval poetry.

Identifies and collects the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music; this is the so-called Beneventan Chant, used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before the adoption there of the now-universal music known as Gregorian chant.

Presents a study of Byzantine aristocracy of the 8th-12th centuries. This collection examines the evolution of aristocratic families and the composition of this group, their relative importance to landholding and public office and the notion of 'civilian' and 'military' families, and patterns of inheritance.

A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. This book aims to bring together twenty-two items, exemplifying such multi-faceted viewpoints on the world of sounds and its virtue.

Throughout his career, Robert Brentano attempted to understand the nature and 'style' of ecclesiastical institutions in Italy and the British Isles. This work brings together articles that examine the writing of history by both medieval authors and modern historians, and includes Brentano's reflections on his own practice as an historian.

Includes sixteen studies that deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. This book emphasizes on the 15th century and especially on the painter Angelos. It also explore the status of Cretan painter in society.