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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From Atoms to Molecules: Studies in the History of Chemistry from the 19th Century
1st Edition
By Colin A. Russell
February 28, 2010
The focus of this volume by Professor Russell is the history of organic chemistry, which arose improbably out of early speculations about the construction of chemical compounds, and in particular their electrochemical nature. The rise of electrochemistry and the work of Berzelius were critical in ...
Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium
1st Edition
By John Scarborough
January 28, 2010
Professor Scarborough brings together here fourteen of his essays on ancient drugs and pharmacy, dealing with aspects of a pharmacology and medical botany that incorporate magic, astrology, and alchemy, as well as the expected theoretical constructs of elements, qualities, and humors. Clinical ...
Essays on Medieval Military History: Strategy, Military Revolutions and the Hundred Years War
1st Edition
By Clifford J. Rogers
December 28, 2009
The Hundred Years War has been the focus of much scholarly work over the past decades. In this collection of fifteen studies, Clifford J. Rogers treats numerous aspects of the war, with particular emphasis on the reign of Edward III. Several campaigns are analyzed in detail, drawing on manuscript...
Ritual, Ceremony and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350-1789
1st Edition
By Lawrence M. Bryant
December 28, 2009
This collection of articles explores changes in images of the French monarchy propagated in ceremonies that townspeople and officials created for their kings. Bryant looks at royal entrées as massive processional and street theaters in which members of the kingdom both discoursed with and exalted ...
Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context
1st Edition
By Charles Burnett
October 28, 2009
This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations ...
Studies on the Cult of Relics in Byzantium up to 1204
1st Edition
By John Wortley
October 28, 2009
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the late 4th to the 10th ...
Christian Politics and Religious Culture in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Neil McLynn
September 28, 2009
These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversion, and the experiments in religious self-presentation which are reflected in our sources from the ...
Welsh History in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Societies
1st Edition
By Wendy Davies
July 28, 2009
This volume brings together Wendy Davies's pioneering early studies on the text of the Book of Llan Dâv alongside later pieces which explore the place of Wales in the wider world of the early middle ages. The Llandaff studies have provoked much subsequent comment: readers will find it helpful to ...
Studies in Medieval Taoism and the Poetry of Li Po
1st Edition
By Paul W. Kroll
June 28, 2009
The emergence of Taoism during the 3rd through 8th centuries as China's indigenous higher religion affected all areas of culture. This volume, one of a pair by Paul Kroll (its companion dealing with other aspects of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history), brings together twelve studies ...
Land and People in Late Medieval England
1st Edition
By Bruce M.S. Campbell
April 28, 2009
This is the third collection of articles by Bruce Campbell to appear in the Variorum series. Late medieval England was an overwhelmingly rural society. Never since has such a large proportion of the population lived in the countryside or relied so directly for its livelihood upon agriculture. The ...
The Ottoman Economy and Its Institutions
1st Edition
By Sevket Pamuk
March 01, 2009
The Ottoman Empire stood at a crossroads of intercontinental trade, stretching from the Balkans and the Black Sea region through the present day Middle East and most of the North African coast for six centuries up to World War I. The articles in this volume by a leading economic historian examine ...
Guilds, Price Formation and Market Structures in Byzantium
1st Edition
By George C. Maniatis
January 28, 2009
The essays reproduced in this volume analyze the guild system in Byzantium and the West, and investigate for the first time the process of price formation in Byzantium. Innovative approaches are devised to fathom the conceptual basis, institutional parameters, market organization and structures, ...