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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'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 ...
Baltic Commerce and Urban Society, 1500-1700: Gdansk/Danzig and its Polish Context
1st Edition
By Maria Bogucka
February 10, 2003
The great merchant port of Danzig, now Gdansk, is at the centre of this set of studies by Professor Maria Bogucka. Through it passed the greatest part of the trade that linked the West with Poland and the Baltic; from it the commercial culture of the West spread out into the towns of Poland, and ...
Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs
1st Edition
By Peter B. Golden
January 15, 2003
The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly,...
State, Society and Intelligentsia: Modern Poland and its Regional Context
1st Edition
By Janusz Zarnowski
January 13, 2003
The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia. These articles make available the results of work otherwise ...
Warriors and their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships between Byzantium, the West and the Islamic World
1st Edition
By David Nicolle
December 28, 2002
The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted. This volume deals principally with ...
Galen and Galenism: Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance
1st Edition
By Luis García-Ballester, Jon Arrizabalaga, Montserrat Cabré, Lluís Cifuentes
December 23, 2002
Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Deriving from the medical and philosophical views of Galen (129-c.210/6) as well as from his clinical ...
Orthodoxy, Paganism and Dissent in the Early Christian Centuries
1st Edition
By W.H.C. Frend
December 12, 2002
This latest collection of articles by Professor Frend brings together a further set of his papers on the history and archaeology of the Early Church. Eight of these relate to St Augustine and his times, and deal with the politics and thought of the Catholic and Donatist Churches in North Africa. ...
Guns and Men in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500: Studies in Military History and Technology
1st Edition
By Kelly DeVries
November 14, 2002
These articles are devoted to the two main aspects of medieval warfare: men and technology. Men fought, led, and ultimately killed in war, while the technology that they used facilitated these tasks. The first group of essays highlights human strengths in the fighting of medieval wars, with a focus...