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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Mortality and Migration in the Modern World
1st Edition
By Ralph Shlomowitz
June 06, 1996
The term 'relocation cost' has been coined by Philip Curtin to refer to the increased mortality associated with the migration of people from their childhood disease environments to new ones. He and others have quantified this cost for a number of migrant populations, notably Africans in the ...
Irrigation and Hydraulic Technology: Medieval Spain and its Legacy
1st Edition
By Thomas F. Glick
March 28, 1996
These essays describe the diffusion of hydraulic institutions and techniques from the Islamic world into medieval Spain and, then, on to the Canaries and to America. Professor Glick's concern is both with technical aspects of water use, such as mills and flow measurement, and with the social basis ...
Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England
1st Edition
By Roy M. MacLeod
March 28, 1996
This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod's work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of science as a responsibility and opportunity for 19th-century statecraft. It illuminates the origins of environmental regulation, the creation of ...
Religion and Society in Spain, c. 1492
1st Edition
By John Edwards
March 28, 1996
The articles in this volume explore both individual and corporate aspects of religion in Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries - Jewish, Christian and Muslim. John Edwards looks in particular at the status, experience, and attitudes of the conversos, those who had converted to Christianity to ...
Studies in Early Medieval Latin Glossaries
1st Edition
By Wallace Martin Lindsay, Michael Lapidge
March 28, 1996
Glossaries are one of the most important sources for our knowledge of early medieval schools, for they provide an accurate records of what texts were studied and how they were understood. But they are also very difficult to access: countless glossaries lie unpublished in manuscript, the relations ...
Myth and Fiction in Early Norse Lands
1st Edition
By Ursula Dronke
February 29, 1996
The first group of essays in this volume explores the links between early Norse literature, from the 9th to the 13th century, and the learned world of medieval Europe. In the second group the focus is upon the range of theme and style in Norse mythological poetry. Some of the key texts are ...
Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education
1st Edition
By William H. Brock
February 29, 1996
This set of essays - four, including the long title essay, being published here for the first time - reflects the author's long interest in the science and culture of the Victorian period. The first section examines the patronage of science and the activities of the British Association of the ...
Songs and Musicians in the Fifteenth Century
1st Edition
By David Fallows
February 29, 1996
The essays in this volume are concerned with song repertories and performance practice in 15th-century Europe. The first group of studies arises from the author's long-term fascination with the widely dispersed traces of English song and , in particular, with the most successful song by any English...
Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire
1st Edition
By Ursula Lamb
December 28, 1995
These essays deal with questions of navigation and, more broadly, the intellectual challenges posed by Spain’s acquisition of an empire across the Atlantic. Crudely, they had to find out what was where and how to get there. The first section of the volume looks at the 16th-century Sevillan ...
The Biological Standard of Living in Europe and America, 1700–1900: Studies in Anthropometric History
1st Edition
By John Komlos
December 28, 1995
One can think of the average height reached at a particular age by individuals as the historical record of their nutritional experience. Medical research has confirmed that nutritional status - and thus physical stature - is related to food consumption and therefore to family income, and therefore...
Marriage, Kinship and Power in Northern China
1st Edition
By Jennifer Holmgren
November 30, 1995
This volume focuses on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in a setting of interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects. The collection covers three major themes: the unique adaptability of steppe society in the face of threats to its politcal dominance; the way ...
Arabic Mathematical Sciences: Instruments, Texts and Transmission
1st Edition
By Richard Lorch
November 23, 1995
This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes. The first is that of the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic, then from Arabic into Latin), and close attention is paid to terminology and comparative vocabulary. The other themes are those ...