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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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brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the ’long’ 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays.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 ...
Renaissance Cardinals and their Worldly Problems
1st Edition
By D.S. Chambers
March 06, 1997
The worldly affairs of holders of high ecclesiastical office in the Renaissance period have a fascination not merely due to scandals and notoriety, but because they are so charged with ambiguity and because, from the 13th to the 17th centuries, porporati had so much more power and influence in the...
Books and Libraries in Early England
1st Edition
By Helmut Gneuss
December 31, 1996
The essays in this second volume from Helmut Gneuss are devoted to the study of books, their readers, and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period. The selection opens with a survey of the history of the medieval English library, followed by detailed studies of ...
Legal Scholarship and Doctrines of Private Law, 13th–18th centuries
1st Edition
By Robert Feenstra
December 12, 1996
The emphasis in this present volume of Professor Feenstra’s studies lies on the post-medieval development of legal scholarship. The opening two studies are concerned with the University of Orléans in the 13th-14th centuries, but from there the centre of interest shifts to the early modern ...
Luther and German Humanism
1st Edition
By Lewis W. Spitz
November 21, 1996
The particular interest of Professor Spitz has been the close relationship and synergy between humanism and religious reform in the transformation of European culture in the 16th century. Within the general cultural and intellectual context of the Renaissance and Reformation movements, the present...
From the North Sea to the Baltic: Essays in Commercial, Monetary and Agrarian History, 1500–1800
1st Edition
By Michael North
October 28, 1996
The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens ...
Medieval Frontier History in New Catalonia
1st Edition
By Lawrence J. McCrank
October 24, 1996
Lawrence McCrank addresses here the processes and consequences of the Christian reconquests in Northeastern Spain during the 12th century, focusing specifically on ’New Catalonia’ then being won back from the Muslims. The history of this region, he argues, can be analysed best in terms of the ...
North of the Tees: Studies in Medieval British History
1st Edition
By H.S. Offler, A.I. Doyle
October 17, 1996
The papers in this volume, which include three left unpublished at the time of Professor Offler's death in 1991, cover the period from the 9th to the 14th centuries; They well exemplify Offler's command of historical narrative and his technical skills as a historian. Their main concern is with the ...