Books from Variorum
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Astrolabes from Medieval Europe
By David A. KingThis is the fourth set of studies in the Variorum series by David King, a leading authority on the history of Islamic astronomy and on medieval astronomical instruments.
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Studies in Medieval Taoism and the Poetry of Li Po
By Paul W. KrollThis volume, one of a pair by Paul Kroll, brings together twelve studies by this leading scholar of medieval China that illuminate selected aspects of Taoism in texts dating to this period and also considers its influence in the works of ...
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Settlement Patterns in Early Modern Colonization, 16th-18th Centuries
By Joyce LorimerThe articles collected together in this volume allow the reader to look at how plans for overseas settlement, conceived at council tables in Europe, actually took place on the ground...
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The Military Orders: Fighting for the faith and caring for the sick
By Victor Mallia-MilanesMilitary Orders first became central to European life in the 1130s and, despite the suppression of the Templars in 1312, remained so until Napoleon seized Malta from the Hospitallers in...
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Ships, Oceans, and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750
By Geoffrey Vaughn ScammellEnglish merchant shipping at the end of the Middle Ages - some East Coast evidence; manning the English merchant service in the 16th century; shipowning in the economy and politics...
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Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles, and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th
By Benedicta WardThis book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, notably as expressed in hagiographical literature, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages. The first group of...
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Civil Engineers and Engineering in Britain, 1600-1830
By A. W. SkemptonThis volume is concerned with the development of civil engineering in Britain, from the 16th to the early-19th century. After a new introductory essay, Professor Skempton looks at the engineers...
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The Writing of History and the Study of Law
By Donald R. KelleyThis second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to...
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Meteora: The Rock Monasteries of Thessaly
By Donald MacGillivray NicolMeteora: The Rock Monasteries of Thessaly
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Jewish Culture and Society in Medieval France and Germany
By Ivan G. MarcusA number of studies in the collection focus on Jewish-Christian cultural and social interactions, the foundations of the community ascribed to Charlemagne, and especially on the fashioning of a martyrological collective identity in 1096.
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Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds
By Charles Burnett, Professor Charles BurnettAfter 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...
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War and Society in Habsburg Spain: Selected Essays
By I. A. A. ThompsonThe historical study of war in the Spain of Philip II forms the starting point for the articles in this volume. They approach this not so much from a military...
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The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History
By Nancy S. StrueverThis book also considers change and continuity in the rhetorical exploitation's of genre forms in cultural programs.
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Authors of the Middle Ages: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages. John Trevisa
By David C. FowlerAuthors of the Middle Ages is a new series, designed for research and reference. Each volume, by an expert on the subject, gives an account of the facts known about...
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Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of Forced Labour
By Patrick ManningThe trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 1800, in the early modern...
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Crown and Cortes: Government, Institutions, and Representation in Early-modern Castile
By I. A. A. ThompsonThese studies present various aspects of a long-running enquiry into the development of government, the state and absolutism in early-modern Spain, distinctively based on thorough use of central and local...
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Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity: England and Western Europe
By Susan ReynoldsThis book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general. Most writing about medieval...
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Thomas Hoccleve
By John Anthony BurrowThomas Hoccleve (d.1426) served four kings as a clerk of the Privy Seal. His poetry, partly written under Chaucer's influence, includes the Regiment of Princes on the nature of kingship...
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Settlement and Soldiers in the Roman Near East
By D. L. KennedyThis 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.
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Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium
By Averil CameronIn these essays the author's aim has been to build a framework for understanding the many changes that took place in the societies of the Eastern Mediterranean in the period...