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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Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China
1st Edition
By Edwin G. Pulleyblank
March 28, 2002
The present set of studies by Professor Pulleyblank complements those gathered in Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China. The central concern here is the interaction between China and the non-Chinese peoples around it, in particular those of Central Asia. The volume opens with several articles ...
Studies on Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Regional Crises and the Case of Hungary
1st Edition
By Ivan T. Berend, György Ránki
March 25, 2002
This volume centres on the collaborative work of Ivan Berend and György Ránki, begun in Hungary in the 1950s and continuing till Ranki's death in 1988, but includes papers by each individually as well as those written jointly. The subject is the social and economic history of Central and Eastern ...
Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe
1st Edition
By Bernard S. Bachrach
March 25, 2002
Throughout the history of Western civilization, war, preparation for war, and its aftermath have dominated the use of surplus human and material resources. Yet, despite our recent history, the brute facts of military history are too often ignored by those who have instead sought to provide a more ...
The Practice of British Geology, 1750–1850
1st Edition
By Hugh Torrens
March 24, 2002
Geology is the most historical of all sciences. Yet its own history remains neglected, especially the many aspects of how geology was practised in the past. This volume analyses the careers of some important practical figures in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish geology between 1750 and 1850. ...
Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb
1st Edition
By André Raymond
February 28, 2002
Professor Raymond deals here with the evolution of the great Arab cities of the Ottoman period (1516-1800) - with questions of organisation, social life and the built space - looking in particular at Aleppo, Algiers, Constantine and, above all, at Cairo. These studies form part of a movement, in ...
Writing Ottoman History: Documents and Interpretations
1st Edition
By Colin Heywood
February 14, 2002
The study of Ottoman history has resulted in the construction of a number of Ottoman ’pasts’, some of which have been proved recoverable and essentially durable, while others have been seen to owe too much to extraneous preconceptions. In the articles collected here, Dr Heywood has questioned some ...
Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric
1st Edition
By Ronald G. Witt
January 09, 2002
These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces the influence of medieval political thought on the rise of the modern conception of republicanism; others focus on the medieval art of ...
Art in the Medieval West and its Audience
1st Edition
By Madeline H. Caviness
December 31, 2001
In this highly illustrated volume Madeline H. Caviness explores a set of issues that have concerned art historians in relation to medieval works of art - questions of patronage and viewing community, formal and aesthetic codes, and modern reception history. Two studies examine ways in which ...
Limits of Thought and Power in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Edward Peters
December 21, 2001
The essays in this volume constitute a series of investigations into the limitations on thought and power as conceived by thinkers in the medieval West and they draw on material ranging from law to literature. The author deals with limits on the human desire for knowledge, the passion with which ...
Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th–16th Centuries
1st Edition
By Raymond van Uytven
December 12, 2001
The subject of this volume is the relationship between production and consumption, considered not only as the supply and demand sides of economic life, but within the broader context of the societies of the Low Countries between the 12th and the 16th centuries. Amongst the topics covered are the ...
Science in the Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800–1860
1st Edition
By Richard Yeo
December 12, 2001
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as ’natural knowledge’ - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. This was the period before major state support for science allowed its professionalization; indeed,...
Studies on Portuguese Asia, 1495-1689
1st Edition
By George D. Winius
November 16, 2001
Portuguese Asia, otherwise known as the Estado da Ãndia Oriental, has been far less studied than the Spanish empire in America, its counterpart in the Western hemisphere. It differed from that vast entity in that it was essentially a maritime trading operation held together by strategic ...