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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Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society, 1770–1878
1st Edition
By Trevor H. Levere
April 28, 1994
In the 18th century chemistry established itself as both an autonomous and a public science, moving from mining and medicine into agriculture and geology, indeed into the entire material and cultural fabric of society. This chemical revolution had its epicentre in France, but quickly spread. The ...
Merchants of Maritime India, 1500–1800
1st Edition
By Ashin Das Gupta
April 28, 1994
The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face of European competition and monopolies. Much of...
Optics, Astronomy and Logic: Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy
1st Edition
By A.I. Sabra
April 14, 1994
Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam. The opening paper presents the historiography of this process, and the focus is then placed on Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most ...
Precious Metals and Commerce: The Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade
1st Edition
By Om Prakash
April 14, 1994
Precious metals played a key role in inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. An assured supply of these metal was indeed a pre-requisite to the procurement of Asian goods such as spices, textiles and raw silk. Once these metals had been imported into Asia, they...
Unbroken Landscape: Commodity, Category, Sign and Identity; Their Production as Myth and Knowledge from 1500
1st Edition
By Frank Perlin
April 14, 1994
This book first analyses the material and cultural character of the production and marketing of commodities and payment forms across the Euro-Asian Continuum - the ’second’ or ’unbroken’ landscape - taking up these categories of objects as things communicated and transmitted by producers and ...
Kings and Lords in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
1st Edition
By Hans Eberhard Mayer
March 17, 1994
In the present volume, the third selection of his articles to be published, Professor Mayer deals with questions of royal authority and power in the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. He first examines the relationship between the monarchy and the Church, questions of royal succession, and aspects of ...
La doctrine canonique médiévale
1st Edition
By Jean Gaudemet
March 17, 1994
The question these articles seek to respond to, in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum, is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them, and how they sought to influence them. Whether ...
Science and Society: Historical Essays on the Relations of Science, Technology and Medicine
1st Edition
By A. Rupert Hall
March 17, 1994
This is the second selection of articles by Rupert Hall to be published by Variorum. Whereas the first volume focused on Newton and his work, the present one ranges more widely over the interactions between ’pure’ science, ’applied’ science, and craftsmanship, but with an emphasis on the period ...
China Under Mongol Rule
1st Edition
By Herbert Franke
February 28, 1994
From c. 1215 to 1368 China was part of the world empire of the Mongols, and during this period underwent many changes as the country was opened up to external influences - demographic, linguistic, religious, socio-economic. The studies by Herbert Franke collected here examine different aspects of ...
Military Orders and Crusades
1st Edition
By Alan Forey
February 17, 1994
The first eight studies in this volume seek to address a series of questions concerning the emergence and the role of the military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries: the reasons for the appearance of the institution, the recruitment and instruction of novices, and, though the military orders ...
Form and Order in Medieval France: Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography
1st Edition
By Brigitte Bedos–Rezak
December 28, 1993
By the early 13th century the use of seals in Northern Europe was a generalized phenomenon which involved society as a whole, crossing boundaries of gender, age, religion, and social and professional status. The function traditionally ascribed to seals is the validation of the documents to which ...
Droit et coutume en France aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles
1st Edition
By André Gouron
December 23, 1993
This third volume by André Gouron brings together a widely scattered set of articles on Roman law in medieval France and its influence. The first group of papers is concerned with the medieval history of Roman law itself, while the two following sections look at how it contributed to the (...