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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The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500-1700
1st Edition
By A.R. Disney
December 19, 2018
The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first, 'The Portuguese in India', includes pieces...
Trade, Money, and Power in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Pamela Nightingale
December 19, 2018
The sixteen articles in this collection 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. In time, they range from the late Anglo-Saxon period up to the advent of the ...
Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy
1st Edition
By Roger E. Reynolds
November 21, 2018
Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely ...
Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa: Studies in Aramaic Epigraphy on the Roman Frontier
1st Edition
By John Healey
October 18, 2018
The thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of ...
Ming Taizu (r. 1368–98) and the Foundation of the Ming Dynasty in China
1st Edition
By Hok-lam Chan
October 18, 2018
This second collection of studies by Hok-lam Chan focuses on the person and the image of Ming Taizu, the founder of the Ming dynasty, and a powerful, brutal and autocratic emperor who has had a significant impact not only in late imperial China, but also in East Asia, over the last six centuries. ...
The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Martin J.S. Rudwick
October 18, 2018
The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted ...
Concord and Reform: Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century
1st Edition
By Morimichi Watanabe, Thomas M. Izbicki
September 27, 2018
Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays in this book analyse his legal and political ideas against the background of medieval religious, ...
Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy
1st Edition
By Stephen Kolsky
September 27, 2018
The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent ...
Dubrovnik: A Mediterranean Urban Society, 1300–1600
1st Edition
By Barisa Krekic
September 27, 2018
This second volume of the author’s studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially translated from Serbo-Croat. The first part deals with aspects of daily life in this Mediterranean city, including analyses of the differing attitudes...
Early Islamic Art, 650–1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
September 27, 2018
Early Islamic Art, 650-1100 is the first in a set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three subsequent volumes being entitled...
Fortification and Settlement in Crusader Palestine
1st Edition
By Denys Pringle
September 27, 2018
These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Frankish settlement was largely confined to the fortified urban centres and castles, with few westerners venturing into the open countryside, has come to be ...
From Kavad to al-Ghazali: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600–c.1100
1st Edition
By Patricia Crone
September 27, 2018
This volume brings together twelve articles by Patricia Crone dealing with pre-Islamic and Islamic religion, law and political thought. The first section focuses on the centuries before Islam, with studies on Mazdakism in Iran and on Islam as the key factor behind the outbreak of Iconoclasm in ...