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]
The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture
1st Edition
By Amnon Shiloah
April 22, 1993
Though we can no longer hear how it sounded, the written sources that remain provide much information on the music of the medieval Islamic and Jewish worlds, on how it was regarded and on the importance that was attached to it. Amnon Shiloah has been a pioneer in the exploration of these sources, ...
‘Artes’ and Bible in the Medieval West
1st Edition
By Margaret Gibson
April 22, 1993
The articles in this volume fall into two main groups, the one dealing with secular learning and especially grammar and logic, the other with biblical scholarship, while the final articles look at the work of particular scholars. Margaret Gibson, however, would see them all as closely interrelated...
Studies on Constantinople
1st Edition
By Cyril Mango
March 25, 1993
This volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the City’s existence - for ...
The Late Roman West and the Vandals
1st Edition
By Frank M. Clover
February 28, 1993
The impact of Roman civilisation on the Empire’s clients in the West forms the subject of the first parts of this volume. Even the most successful Germanic kingdoms of the 5th-6th centuries, the author argues, such as that of the Vandals in North Africa, could not escape the grasp of the Roman ...
After Newton: Essays on Natural Philosophy
1st Edition
By P.M. Harman
February 26, 1993
In the period 1700-1850 there took place a major transition in natural philosophy: from Newton’s concept of passive matter activated by ethereal and active principles, to the conception of nature as a self-contained system, its activity being seen in terms of energy and field principles which were ...
Coptic Perspectives on Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Leslie S.B. MacCoull
February 26, 1993
The transitions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages continue to demand explanation; in the case of Egypt there is the added question of why the Coptic language died out following the Arab conquests. In these studies Dr MacCoull draws on the extensive papyrological evidence, in both Coptic and Greek,...
Etudes sur le grand domaine carolingien
1st Edition
By Jean-Pierre Devroey
February 26, 1993
The origins of the large estate of Carolingian Europe and the role it played in the evolution of Frankish society and economy are the themes of this volume. The first group of articles focus on documentary evidence, especially the polyptychs and their interpretation. Though there is insufficient ...
Newton, his Friends and his Foes
1st Edition
By A. Rupert Hall
February 26, 1993
Over the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the ’new view’ of Newton now generally accepted. Essentially this has derived from the bringing to light and examination of Newton’s vast, but long neglected legacy of manuscripts, and the first studies in this volume ...
Past and Present in Medieval Spain
1st Edition
By Peter Linehan
December 17, 1992
The studies included in this selection - the opening two being published for the first time - are concerned with various aspects of the history of Christian Spain between the 6th century and the 14th. A recurrent theme is that of the invention of the past: of the manner in which, for reasons which...
Rural and Urban Aspects of Early Medieval Northwest Europe
1st Edition
By Adriaan Verhulst
December 17, 1992
The articles here concern the period from the end of the Roman Empire up to the 10th-11th centuries and the lands between the Loire and the Rhine, most particularly the Low Countries. Rural history forms the subject of the first studies, which focus on the large ’classical’ estates of the ...
Croisades et Etats latins d’Orient: Points de vue et Documents
1st Edition
By Jean Richard
November 28, 1992
This is the fourth selection of Jean Richard’s articles to be published by Variorum; like them, it brings together much widely scattered material. The first selection focuses on the crusading process - the conception and execution of a crusade, the motivation of its participants. The following ...
The Culture of Science in France, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Robert Fox
November 17, 1992
This volume treats a remarkable period in the history of science in France. The articles in the first of its two sections, concerned with patronage and institutions, explore the structures that fostered research and the diffusion of scientific and technological knowledge, not only in the great ...