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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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 ...
Recherches sur l'histoire de la France Médiévale: Des Mérovingiens aux Premiers Capétiens
1st Edition
By Robert-Henri Bautier
October 04, 1991
This selection of articles by Robert-Henri Bautier deals with the political and institutional history of France between the 6th and 12th centuries, and is above all concerned with the changing extent of the rulers' power from the rise of the Carolingians onwards. A subsequent volume will focus on ...
The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law
1st Edition
By James A. Brundage
July 12, 1991
This volume is concerned, above all, with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval Crusades. This is an area that the author was the first to investigate systematically, and there are two particular reasons for his approach: one, the conviction ...
Autorité épiscopale et sollicitude pastorale (IIe–VIe siècles)
1st Edition
By Charles Munier
June 20, 1991
The first set of articles in this collection is concerned with the nature of the bishop’s authority in the Early Church and the sources from which it was drawn. This is seen in political terms, as in the writings of Justin Martyr, as well as spiritual ones. Charles Munier singles out Tertullian as ...
History and Politics in Eleventh-Century Baghdad
1st Edition
By George Makdisi
March 21, 1991
In the present collection of his articles George Makdisi is first of all concerned with the local history and the topography of Baghdad. This is of interest in itself, as a study of one of the principal urban centres of the medieval world, but it also has a broader significance. For Baghdad, as the...