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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Mathematics and the Medieval Ancestry of Physics
1st Edition
By George Molland
April 13, 1995
The central theme of this volume lies in the medieval consciousness of mathematics, and the variety of strategies adopted to apply it in other areas, notably natural philosophy. In diachromic terms, Dr Molland considers ways in which ancient mathematics (particularly geometry) was assimilated in ...
Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia
1st Edition
By Joseph F. Fletcher
April 06, 1995
This book brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher (1934-84), a scholar widely acclaimed for the breadth and brilliance of his historical thought and for his almost unequalled linguistic competence. Fletcher’s mastery of the major languages and historical ...
Orphée et l’Orphisme dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine
1st Edition
By Luc Brisson
March 09, 1995
The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought. Yet what we know directly about Orphism comes from a scatter of isolated and often very short fragments quoted in the works of Platonists of the Roman period, notably Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author’...
Environment and Society in Roman North Africa: Studies in History and Archaeology
1st Edition
By Brent D. Shaw
February 23, 1995
The impact of a changing environment on human society and, conversely, the impact of man’s activities upon the environment are important and contentious subjects today. Climatic and environmental change have also been credited with bringing about major shifts in human history. One such case is ...
Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam
1st Edition
By Wael B. Hallaq
February 16, 1995
These studies by Wael Hallaq represent an important contribution to our understanding of the neglected field of medieval Islamic law and legal thought. Spanning the period from the 8th to the 16th centuries, they draw upon a wide range of original sources to offer both fresh interpretations of ...
Maritime Trade, Society and European Influence in Southern Asia, 1600–1800
1st Edition
By S. Arasaratnam
January 28, 1995
The particular focus of these articles is on the southern part of the Indian subcontinent and its relations with Southeast Asia. A number deal specifically with the Coromandel coast, its ports and merchant communities, while some are more concerned with the Indian Ocean region as a whole. In the ...
Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy: Studies in the Culture and Political Thought of Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
By Paschalis M. Kitromilides
November 28, 1994
The first section of this volume aims to examine various aspects of the impact of Enlightenment thought in the Balkans in the 18th and 19th centuries. Particular topics include the idea of modernization, with respect to the role of science or the position of women, and the growth of new forms of ...
Studies in Arabian Architecture
1st Edition
By Paolo M. Costa
November 24, 1994
Based on extensive architectural and archaeological research, these papers present a series of studies on the art, buildings, settlement patterns, and land use in Iraq, Yemen and Oman, from the pre-Islamic period to modern times. Many of the monuments and sites were studied here for the first time...
The Manorial Economy in Early-Modern East-Central Europe: Origins, Development and Consequences
1st Edition
By Jerzy Topolski
November 24, 1994
This book is concerned with one of the fundamental problems in the economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period, namely with the bifurcation in its development: in Western Europe, the development of capitalism; in East-Central Europe, the rise of the manorial-serf economy which ...
Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Articles
1st Edition
By John Monfasani
November 03, 1994
Language was the Italian humanists’ stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline. In this volume Professor Monfasani collects together his most important articles on these subjects. One group of these, including two review essays, focuses specifically on the humanist Lorenzo Valla and on his ...
Monnaie et finances à Byzance: analyses, techniques
1st Edition
By Cécile Morrisson
November 03, 1994
In collaboration with colleagues in physics and metallurgy, Cécile Morrison has helped transform our knowledge of the techniques of late Roman and Byzantine coin production. The results are illustrated in the studies here which look in detail at standards of refining and processes of debasement. ...
History and Religion in Late Antique Syria
1st Edition
By Han J.W. Drijvers
October 20, 1994
The studies in this volume are drawn together from a widely scattered set of publications, many difficult of access. They exemplify the variety of influences - religious, cultural, political - that interacted in Syria in Late Antiquity, and the range of responses that these evoked in changing ...