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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Science médiévale d'Espagne et d'Alentour
1st Edition
By Guy Beaujouan
September 24, 1992
The articles in this volume provide a profound contribution to our knowledge of the scientific and intellectual context of the great voyages of discovery in the 15th century, and illustrate the particularities of the development of science and medicine in medieval Spain - for example at the medical...
The City and the Realm: Burgos and Castile, 1080–1492
1st Edition
By Teofilo F. Ruiz
September 24, 1992
The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile. The focus is the social and economic history of Burgos, and the work is founded on detailed research in the...
Vie chrétienne et culture dans l’Espagne du VIIe au Xe siècles
1st Edition
By Manuel C. Díaz
September 24, 1992
In the 7th century the political and economic situation of Visigothic Spain seemed to grow ever worse, yet it was at this time that there was established a Christian culture that lasted up to the 11th century. This culture forms the subject of the present volume and was the product, the author ...
War and Society in Habsburg Spain
1st Edition
By I.A.A. Thompson
September 24, 1992
The historical study of war in the Spain of Philip II forms the starting point for the articles in this volume. They approach this not so much from a military angle, but as a problem of organization, procurement and finance. In a sense, the articles represent an assessment of the effectiveness of...
Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of Ninth-Century Palestine
1st Edition
By Sidney H. Griffith
August 20, 1992
The history of Christian literature took a new turn in the 8th century when monks in the monasteries of Palestine began to write theology and saints’ lives in Arabic; they also instituted a veritable programme for translating the Bible and other Christian texts from Greek (and Syriac) into the ...
The Hospitallers of Rhodes and their Mediterranean World
1st Edition
By Anthony Luttrell
August 20, 1992
The studies in the present volume, on the history of the Order of the Hospital between 1306 and 1522, are not only concerned with the part it played in the defence of the Latin Levant, but also with its role in Western society. The first articles deal with the settlement of Rhodes, the conflicts ...
Féodalités et droits savants dans le Midi médiéval
1st Edition
By Gérard Giordanengo
April 30, 1992
The feudal system has come to be seen as one of the most characteristic features of the Western Middle Ages, yet the study of feudal law has not always received the same attention as that given to its institutions. This law, it is true, was a subject of secondary importance in the medieval ...
Sorcellerie et justice criminelle: Le Parlement de Paris (16e–18e siècles)
1st Edition
By Alfred Soman
April 30, 1992
The Parlement of Paris was the largest secular court in Christendom. Although its criminal archives have been preserved virtually intact, historians of the period of the great witch trials, as well as scholars of the Ancien Régime in general, have been discouraged by the notorious difficulties of ...
Electricity and Experimental Physics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
By R.W. Home
April 28, 1992
At the beginning of the 18th century there was no science of physics as we recognise it today; by the early years of the nineteenth century, there was. The articles in this volume are concerned with the process by which this came about. They focus, in particular, on the rise of experimental physics...
Technology, Industry and Trade: The Levant versus Europe, 1250–1500
1st Edition
By Eliyahu Ashtor, Benjamin Z. Kedar
April 28, 1992
This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian...
Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Angeliki E. Laiou
April 16, 1992
The studies in this volume reflect the author’s interest in history as it was lived: not only the social and economic structures, but the men and women, collectively and individually, who made them function. The role of women in Byzantine economy and society is found to be much more important than ...
Quid pro quo: Studies in the History of Drugs
1st Edition
By John M. Riddle
April 16, 1992
All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothesis that ancient and medieval medicines were effective - a methodology that he ...