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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Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition
1st Edition
By Michael Cook
March 15, 2004
In contrast to the gradual formation of the high cultures of most of the world, the process by which Islamic civilisation emerged and took on its classical form between the 7th and 9th centuries was unusually sudden. The studies collected here are concerned with aspects of this remarkable ...
Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire: Western Influence, Local Institutions, and the Transfer of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
February 28, 2004
The aim of these studies is to explore the scientific activity and learning that took place within the Ottoman empire, a subject often neglected by both historians of science and of the Ottoman world. Professor Ihsanoglu has been a pioneer in this field. In several papers he analyses the ...
Studies in Italian Sacred and Instrumental Music in the 17th Century
1st Edition
By Stephen Bonta
October 28, 2003
Stephen Bonta's research on seventeenth-century Italian music, particularly for strings, spans more than 30 years. Included in this selection of his published articles is his seminal study of the early history of the bass violin which proved to be the foundation for his subsequent articles on the ...
Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany
1st Edition
By Michael Jones
August 28, 2003
'Between France and England' characterises the role played by most rulers of the duchy of Brittany during the late Middle Ages, before it was finally united with Valois France. These essays (including three appearing for the first time in English) explore political and institutional aspects of the ...
Theodulf of Orléans: Charlemagne's Spokesman against the Second Council of Nicaea
1st Edition
By Ann Freeman
August 28, 2003
Who composed in Charlemagne's name the impressive treatise that repudiates the Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (but which, in the end, the king prevented for religio-political reasons from circulating in his own day)? This series of essays explores in turn the liturgical background, the ...
Francs et Orientaux dans le monde des croisades
1st Edition
By Jean Richard
July 28, 2003
This latest volume by Jean Richard is concerned with the evolution of the crusading movement and with the interaction between crusaders and indigenous peoples of the Near East. The articles look at changes in the concept of crusading, means of financing it, and forms of indulgence; at how the ...
Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers
1st Edition
By Gerard L'E. Turner
July 15, 2003
This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world. An international authority on historical scientific instruments, Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on ...
'A Free though Conquering People': Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire
1st Edition
By P.J. Marshall
June 28, 2003
The present collection brings together a series of studies by Peter Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century. Some essays focus on the thirteen North American colonies, the West Indies, and British contact with China; those dealing specifically with India have appeared in ...
Spain and the Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages: Studies in Political and Intellectual History
1st Edition
By J.N. Hillgarth
June 13, 2003
These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (...
Church, State and Community: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
By Antony Black
May 27, 2003
Running through the papers collected here is the concern to try and understand the reasons which people thought they had for acting in a certain way, and - not always the same thing - the reasons which they expressed for what they were doing. The book's first section focuses on the theories of ...
Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450–1750: Studies in British and European Maritime and Imperial History
1st Edition
By G.V. Scammell
April 11, 2003
This second volume of articles by G.V. Scammell offers new insights into the history of British and European shipping in the centuries of Europe's penetration into the oceans of the world, from the 15th to the 18th century. It examines the building, ownership and operation of merchantmen in the ...
Later Roman Egypt: Society, Religion, Economy and Administration
1st Edition
By Roger S. Bagnall
February 28, 2003
Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt by Roger Bagnall, whose book 'Egypt ...