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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Rights, Laws and Infallibility in Medieval Thought
1st Edition
By Brian Tierney
July 03, 1997
The papers collected in this volume fall into three main groups. Those in the first group are concerned with the origin and early development of the idea of natural rights. The author argues here that the idea first grew into existence in the writings of the 12th-century canonists. The articles in ...
Studies in Medieval Music Theory and the Early Sequence
1st Edition
By Richard L. Crocker
July 03, 1997
This volume first addresses crucial problems in the history of ancient and medieval theory of music, searching for the appropriate technical concepts and tonal structure with which to understand medieval music. The second section presents the documentary foundation for Professor Crocker’s work on ...
Trade, Commodities and Shipping in the Medieval Mediterranean
1st Edition
By David Jacoby
July 03, 1997
This fourth collection by David Jacoby focuses on Western economic expansion the Eastern Mediterranean during the 11th-15th centuries. He is concerned to emphasize the interconnections linking the West, Byzantium and the Levant, and to examine normative sources for commercial activity (charters, ...
Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies
1st Edition
By Wilfred Vernon Farrar, Richard L. Hills
June 19, 1997
This volume opens with a series of articles making up a monographic study of the Henry family of Manchester, a dynasty that was active in science, medicine, education and industry from the 1760s to the 1830s. This work is important in studying the relations between science and industry, and not ...
The Writing of History and the Study of Law
1st Edition
By Donald R. Kelley
June 19, 1997
This second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to confront some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences. The first group of papers examine the ...
Status, Authority and Regional Power: Aquitaine and France, 9th to 12th Centuries
1st Edition
By Jane Martindale
May 29, 1997
This volume contains articles covering the centuries between the establishment of Carolingian power in Western Europe and the expansion of the Anglo Norman and Angevin ’Empire’ within the French kingdom of the Capetians. The common underlying themes of these papers are the exercise of political ...
Studies in the Medieval History of the Yemen and South Arabia
1st Edition
By G. Rex Smith
May 29, 1997
This volume brings together a set of widely scattered articles spanning some thirty years of research on early and medieval Yemen and South Arabia. They cover the political and military history of the area, from the beginning of Islam to the Ottoman conquest in 1517, with the establishment of the ...
Science, Culture and Politics in Britain, 1750–1870
1st Edition
By Jack Morrell
April 24, 1997
From the late 1960s, Jack Morrell’s articles have stimulated a reorientation of the historiography of science. He showed by example, in the studies now gathered here, how the social, political, economic, and institutional aspects of science could be integrated with its content. In his writings he ...
A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1600–1800
1st Edition
By Philip Lawson
March 28, 1997
In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the ’long’ 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays. ...
Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century
1st Edition
By Holden Furber, Rosane Rocher
March 20, 1997
This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber’s discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the ’country trade’ between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire. ...
Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450–1700
1st Edition
By P.E.H. Hair
March 06, 1997
Professor Hair’s aim here has been to explore the European written record for the history of Africa south of the Sahara. This effectively began with the arrival of the Portuguese on the Guinea coast and many of these articles focus on Sierra Leone; others extend the enquiry to southern Africa. One ...
Medieval Aristotelianism and its Limits: Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th–15th Centuries
1st Edition
By Cary J. Nederman
March 06, 1997
This volume deals with the development of moral and political philosophy in the medieval West. Professor Nederman is concerned to trace the continuing influence of classical ideas, but emphasises that the very diversity and diffuseness of medieval thought shows that there is no single scheme that ...