The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith’s major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coincidin
Reinink explores the literary responses of the Syriac Christian communities in North Mesopotamia and Iraq to the drastic political changes during the seventh and eighth centuries, particularly the Per
While research on the crusades tends increasingly to bifurcate into study of the crusade idea and the crusading expeditions, and study of the Frankish states the crusaders established in the Levant, B
Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon law at the University of Padua and later c
This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the Elizabeth
The papers assembled in this selection of studies range in subject matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of the collection is neve
The studies in the present volume, on the history of the Order of the Hospital between 1306 and 1522, are not only concerned with the part it played in the defence of the Latin Levant, but also with i
To this collection of his articles and lectures from about 1989 to 2003, Lecker has added a new lecture on idol worship on the eve of Islam, a study of a pre-Islamic legal document preserved in a lite
The area whose capital was the southern Lombard city of Benevento developed a culture identified with the characteristic form of writing known as the Beneventan script, which was used throughout the a
Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek AcmigrAcs to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done. This new volume by
This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelunga€?s articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Isla
After the massive movement in Baghdad to translate texts by and about Greek philosophers into Arabic from the middle of the eighth century to the end of the tenth, the material began being used, revis
While Loud's 1999 collection Conquerors and Churchman in Norman Italy concentrated on the ecclesiastical history of southern Italy in the central Middle Ages, the 12 essays reproduced here focus mor
The followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) formed one of the greatest challenges to the medieval Latin Church. Branded as heretics, outlawed, then forced to fight for their fait
These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in th
This fourth Variorum collection of articles by Peter Linehan comprises items largely from the past decade. The studies represent further investigation of themes broached in earlier works, in particula
