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 Early Christian Liturgy and its Context: Byzantium, Syria, Armenia
1st Edition
By Gabriele Winkler
December 11, 1997
The history of the Eastern liturgical rituals reveals the variety and splendour of the world of the Christian Orient, and the profundity of its theological thought. The ritual bears witness to the deep impact these liturgies made on the Mediterranean cultures and societies of Late Antiquity. ...
Métaphysique d’Ibn Gabirol et de la tradition platonicienne
1st Edition
By Fernand Brunner
November 20, 1997
Early in his career, Fernand Brunner became one of the few specialists on Ibn Gabirol, a Jewish philosopher and poet in 11th-century Spain, whose treatise, the Fons vitae, is known only in Latin translation. Brunner showed the coherence of this rarely studied version of Platonism and traced its ...
Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam
1st Edition
By M.J. Kister
October 30, 1997
This book deals with the history of pre-Islamic Arab society and the emergence of Islam, as reflected in hadith, adab, historical, genealogical and exegetical literature. Among the themes discussed are the ethnic composition of the population of Mecca, the evolving relationship between the nascent ...
Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen
1st Edition
By Daniel Martin Varisco
September 25, 1997
The strength of Professor Varisco’s work lies in his combination of ethnographic fieldwork among highland Yemeni farmers with an extensive study of medieval Arabic manuscripts on folk astronomy and agriculture. The opening articles discuss the astronomical concept of the ’lunar stations’ in ...
Studies on the Jurchens and the Chin Dynasty
1st Edition
By Herbert Franke
September 18, 1997
The studies collected here derive in large part from the collaborative Chin history project, to which Professors Chan and Franke have made a massive contributuion. The Jurchens lived in northeastern Manchuria as hunters, fishers and farmers, until 1115 when they founded a dynastic state called Chin...
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 ...