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.
For further information about contributing to the series please contact Michael Greenwood at [email protected]
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 ...
Hungary and the European Economy in Early Modern Times
1st Edition
By Zsigmond Pául Pach
October 20, 1994
In the age of overseas colonization and rise of intercontinental trade, Western Europe’s intercontinental trade with East-Central Europe did not diminish either, but considerably increased in both quantity and significance. Commercial relations within Europe also became a substantial factor in the...
Etudes d'astronomie byzantine
1st Edition
By Anne Tihon
October 13, 1994
Byzantine science has been a largely neglected subject: Byzantinists, whether dealing with the history or the literature, have most often been deterred by the technicalities; historians of Greek science have been more attracted to earlier periods. Yet, even if science in the Byzantine world may ...
Sacred and Secular: Studies on Augustine and Latin Christianity
1st Edition
By Robert A. Markus
October 08, 1994
This collection brings together a set of studies on the notions of the sacred and the secular held by early Christian writers, especially Augustine and Gregory the Great, and on their relationships in actual practice in Late Antiquity. Problems of heresy and orthodoxy in Latin Christianity, ...
Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th–9th centuries
1st Edition
By Rosamond McKitterick
September 29, 1994
The focus of this volume is the book production of the Frankish regions of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. By means of a detailed scrutiny of individual manuscripts, groups of manuscripts, and categories of texts, Dr McKitterick shows how they can be used to throw light on questions such ...