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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Frankish History: Studies in the Construction of Power
1st Edition
By Paul Fouracre
March 12, 2013
The volume consists of sixteen papers on the history of Francia between the seventh and eleventh centuries. Originally published between 1979 and 2009, the papers are arranged around three interlinking themes: the relationship between History and Hagiography, the history of Francia under the ...
Churches, Castles and Landscape in the Frankish East
1st Edition
By Denys Pringle
January 14, 2013
The sixteen studies brought together in this book (the second collection of Denys Pringle's articles) are the product of the many years that the author has spent investigating the material evidence for Latin settlement in Syria and Palestine in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Focusing on the ...
Studies in Medieval Shi'ism
1st Edition
By Wilferd Madelung, edited by Sabine Schmidtke
November 22, 2012
This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, and Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam). The first articles here examine legal and political aspects of early Shi`ism. The following ...
Islamic Astronomy and Geography
1st Edition
By David A. King
November 12, 2012
This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It ...
Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe: Theories and Approaches
1st Edition
By Paola Zambelli
August 01, 2012
Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with theories: the ideas of astrology and magic ...
Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus: Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism
1st Edition
By Andrew Smith
January 28, 2012
This selection of twenty-five essays by Andrew Smith is devoted to Neoplatonism and especially to Plotinus and Porphyry. It deals with Plotinus' development of the Platonic Forms, and includes a lengthy assessment of Porphyry's contribution to the Platonic tradition. The themes also embrace a ...
On the Military Orders in Medieval Europe: Structures and Perceptions
1st Edition
By Jürgen Sarnowsky
November 28, 2011
This collection of articles by Jürgen Sarnowsky covers 20 years of research dedicated to the military orders in general as well as to the Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights. Four of these have been translated into English especially for this volume and two articles are published here for the first ...
The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib: Qadis, Muftis and Family Law
1st Edition
By David S. Powers
October 28, 2011
The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE. Based on preserved legal documents and the expert opinions of Muslim jurists (Muftis), the essays examine family law cases involving legal minority, ...
Documenting Christianity in Egypt, Sixth to Fourteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Leslie S.B. MacCoull
September 02, 2011
The nineteen studies in this volume, produced over the last fifteen years, cover three areas in Christian Egypt's long and enduring history. First are eight papers dealing with record-keeping in both of the Christian Egyptian culture-carrying languages of late antiquity, Coptic and Greek, showing ...
Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult
1st Edition
By Stephanos Efthymiadis
August 28, 2011
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. The studies reproduced in this volume cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era. ...
Women, Family and Society in Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Cécile Morrisson, Angeliki E. Laiou, Rowan Dorin
August 12, 2011
Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Women, Family and Society in Byzantium, the first of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum Collected Studies ...
Abbot Joachim of Fiore and Joachimism: Selected Articles
1st Edition
By E. Randolph Daniel
July 28, 2011
In the articles included in this collection, Professor Daniel argues that Abbot Joachim of Fiore was a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux whose tertius status was reformist, not millenialist. Like the other reformists, Gerhoch of Reichersberg and Hildegard of Bingen, Joachim looked forward to the ...