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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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...
The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period
1st Edition
By Sidney H. Griffith
November 04, 2002
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the ...
Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture
1st Edition
By Simon Franklin
October 15, 2002
The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original. The essays in this...
Studies on the History of Late Antique and Christian Nubia
1st Edition
By Laurence Kirwan, T. Hägg, D.A. Welsby
August 07, 2002
Gathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications. Kirwan's fieldwork in the region, undertaken ...
Reason and Belief in the Age of Roscelin and Abelard
1st Edition
By Constant J. Mews
July 24, 2002
The previous collection by Constant J. Mews focused on the work and thought of Peter Abelard (1079-1142); the present volume looks more broadly at Abelard's intellectual and religious context in the Latin West, and at his teacher, the controversial nominalist philosopher and theologian, Roscelin of...
The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law: Studies on the Iberian Kingdoms and Papal Rome in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Peter Linehan
July 19, 2002
This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries. Amongst those discussed and explored ...