Variorum Collected Studies
About the Book Series
The first title in the Variorum Collected Studies series was published in 1970. Since then over 1000 titles have appeared in the series, and it has established a well-earned international reputation for the publication of key research across a whole range of subjects within the fields of history. The history of the medieval world remains central to the series, with Byzantine studies a particular speciality. Other major strands include Islamic studies and the histories of philosophy, science and medicine.
Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. These studies are reprinted from a vast range of learned journals, Festschrifts and conference proceedings. They are an essential resource making available research that is scattered or inaccessible in all but the most specialized libraries.
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Armies and Warfare in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany
1st Edition
By David S. Bachrach
June 30, 2026
This volume presents twelve studies, written between 2007 and 2023, which examine the conduct of war in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany from the mid-ninth to the early eleventh century. Grouped thematically rather than by date of publication, the chapters focus on military recruitment...
Philosophical Perspectives: Essays on Reality, Knowledge, and Morality
1st Edition
By Necip Fikri Alican
June 23, 2026
Philosophical Perspectives: Essays on Reality, Knowledge, and Morality is a collection of previously published essays by a professional philosopher whose research spans a rich array of foundational questions that shape our lives as rational creatures and moral agents. Promising a fresh alternative ...
Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium: Art and Culture 330 – 1453
1st Edition
By Liz James
June 22, 2026
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of ...
Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Barbara Russano Hanning
June 22, 2026
Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came ...
Epigraphy and Theory in the Study of Early Islam
1st Edition
By Ilkka Lindstedt
June 18, 2026
The studies in this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150–750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivotal period in world history. Islam did not emerge in...
Italian Merchant Bankers in North-Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli
May 18, 2026
Italian merchants played a pivotal role in the international trade of England and the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages. While the field is well established, the examination of a vast array of Italian business sources kept in private and public archives offers important new insights. The ...
French Opera 1730–1830: Meaning and Media
1st Edition
By David Charlton
March 30, 2026
The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume. Drawing on recent archival research and new musicological theory, they investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opéra comique to early grand opera. ’Media...
Venice Between Magnificence and Misery
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Hocquet
March 16, 2026
Throughout the Middle Ages and all over Europe and the Mediterranean, Venetian merchants travelled throughout the known world in search of lucrative business opportunities and trading in anything that could be bought and sold. Envied by its neighbours, Venice came up against powerful enemies, both ...
Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede
1st Edition
By Arthur Holder
December 26, 2025
Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together 17 essays by Arthur Holder exploring the theology and spirituality found in Bede’s biblical commentaries and homilies. The volume shows that Bede was both a masterful student of received tradition and a creative thinker ...
Studies in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By David Neal Greenwood
December 26, 2025
Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle ...
Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Two Volume Set
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
November 21, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings in two volumes on his central field of research on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic...
Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
October 01, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous ...