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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Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam
1st Edition
By Wilferd Madelung
April 16, 1992
This volume complements the selection of Wilferd Madelung’s articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam), the earlier volume dealing principally with dogmatic issues, the present one concentrating on the political and social aspects. The first articles ...
Medieval Councils, Decretals and Collections of Canon Law
2nd Edition
By Stephan Kuttner
March 26, 1992
First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies. For this second edition they have...
Commerce méditerranéen et banquiers italiens au Moyen Age
1st Edition
By Robert-Henri Bautier
February 28, 1992
This is the second selection of articles on economic history by Robert-Henri Bautier to be published by Variorum; the first, Sur l’histoire économique de la France médiévale, focused on the infrastructure of economic life within the kingdom of France - the network of land and river routes, and the ...
Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350–1500
1st Edition
By John H. Munro
February 20, 1992
Did ’money matter’ in the economic history of medieval Europe? In these essays John Munro has pursued the controversies surrounding the monetary (not ’monetarist’) history of the period, specifically in relation to England and Flanders, and the other Burgundian Low Countries, during the late Middle...
Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: England and France
1st Edition
By John Harris
February 20, 1992
This collection of essays is devoted to the industrial history of England and France in the 18th century and concentrates in particular on transfers of technology between them. There are specific studies of technical transfer in the steel, glass and hardware industries, and on the place of the ...
Etudes sur la France Capétienne: De Louis VI aux fils de Philippe le Bel
1st Edition
By Robert-Henri Bautier
February 20, 1992
This volume follows on chronologically from Recherches sur l’histoire de la France médiévale: des Mérovingiens aux premiers Capétiens and Robert-Henri Bautier is here concerned with the political and institutional history of the kingdom of France from the first years of the 12th-century to the ...
Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain
1st Edition
By Roger Collins
February 20, 1992
Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain, specifically Christian Spain, in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths, through the time of the Arab conquests, up to the end of the era of Carolingian dominance across the Pyrenees. Particular emphasis, indeed, is ...
Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles and Prayer from the 4th Century to the 14th
1st Edition
By Benedicta Ward
February 20, 1992
This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages. The first group of articles focuses on the Desert Fathers, the following ones examine key figures in the monastic history of the medieval West, dealing above all with ...
Explorations in Muscovite History
1st Edition
By Samuel H. Baron
November 01, 1991
The main themes of this volume are the explorations and geographical discoveries, and the economic circumstances that lay behind the establishment of commercial relations between Muscovite Russia and Elizabethan England. It also includes four hitherto unpublished studies, together with additional ...
Religion, Law and Learning in Classical Islam
1st Edition
By George Makdisi
October 28, 1991
This second selection of articles by George Makdisi concentrates on the schools of religious thought and legal learning in the medieval Islamic world and their defence of ’orthodoxy’. The author aims to review and re-assess the implications of the conflict between, first, the ’rationalist’ and the ...
Customary and Shari‘ah Law in Arabian Society
1st Edition
By R.B. Serjeant
October 27, 1991
The society and legal systems of Southern Arabia, both ancient and modern, form the subject of this second collection of articles by Professor Serjeant. His approach has been to make a detailed study of modern social structures and legal customs and to relate these to what we know of ancient ...
Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Peter Dronke
October 04, 1991
This volume presents a series of penetrating analyses of particular poems and problems of literary history illustrating the many sides of medieval poetry and the interactions of learned, popular and courtly traditions. The first and longest essay, 'Waltharius-Gaiferos', aims to characterize the ...