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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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 ...
Society and Trade in South Arabia
1st Edition
By R.B. Serjeant, G. Rex Smith
September 12, 1996
This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the ...
Studies on the Origins and Uses of Islamic Hadith
1st Edition
By G.H.A. Juynboll
September 05, 1996
Since the beginnings of this century western scholars have become familiar with Ignaz Goldziher's hypothesis concerning canonical hadith literature - that religious literary genre of Islam, second in holiness to the Qur’an, which allegedly comprises faithful accounts of what the Prophet of Islam ...
World Silver and Monetary History in the 16th and 17th Centuries
1st Edition
By Dennis O. Flynn
August 29, 1996
This collection reflects the evolution of a revisionist argument. The price revolution was indeed a monetary phenomenon, but Professor Flynn's position is not based upon mainstream monetary theory. Silver mines financed the Spanish Empire and Japan's consolidation. Ming China was the world's ...
Agrarian Development and Social Change in Eastern Europe, 14th–19th Centuries
1st Edition
By Péter Gunst
August 22, 1996
What was ’Eastern European’ about the historical development of Eastern Europe? How is the region to be defined? And, specifically, where was Hungary to be situated in relation to it? These are the questions underlying the studies in this volume. In the first part, Professor Gunst sets out to ...
Culture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Giles Constable
August 22, 1996
The studies in the present selection of Giles Constable's work concentrate on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries, though they also touch on the early and late Middle Ages. The cultural articles are concerned respectively with perceptions of time and the past, forgery (seen as a...