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]
Muslims, Jews, Christians and Pagans: Studies on Pre- and Early Islamic History
1st Edition
By Michael Lecker
November 18, 2026
Muslims, Jews, Christians and Pagans: Studies on Pre- and Early Islamic History brings together eleven studies published between 2009 and 2024, arranged in three sections: Pre-Islamic idols, Muḥammad at Medina, and Jews and Christians in early Islam. Based on a wide range of primary sources that ...
Medieval Europe From Another Angle: Volume I: The People
1st Edition
By Florin Curta
August 27, 2026
While the Middle Ages represent a topic of perennial interest, most studies have addressed the western parts of the European continent, often from the angle of the written sources. This volume examines an area less known in the literary and archaeological evidence. The studies included therein ...
Medieval Europe From Another Angle: Volume II: Transformations
1st Edition
By Florin Curta
August 27, 2026
The history of East Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe may be considered as alternating between a Marxist emphasis on rigid differences between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, largely derived from distinctive modes of production, and a preoccupation with borders, ethnicity, and personalities. ...
“And O’er Earth’s Troubled, Angry Sea”: The History of Christian Science in the United States
1st Edition
By Rolf Swensen
August 27, 2026
Christian Science is one of the most unique and controversial of American religions, but there has never been a history of this influential metaphysical group, best known for its healing through prayer. Most attention has previously focused on the church’s founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910). This...
Philosophical Perspectives: Essays on Reality, Knowledge, and Morality
1st Edition
By Necip Fikri Alican
August 14, 2026
Philosophical Perspectives: Essays on Reality, Knowledge, and Morality is a collection of essays on foundational questions that shape our lives as rational creatures and moral agents. Promising a fresh alternative to the academic specialization and consequent fragmentation dominating current ...
Continuity and Rupture in the Long Middle Ages: Religion, Law and Interpretation
1st Edition
By Michael Edward Moore
July 20, 2026
The “Long Middle Ages” indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to understand factors of historical continuity binding this period together and the periodic scenes of violent change that disrupted societies and ...
From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Premodern Europe
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Murray
July 20, 2026
From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Premodern Europe reflects the historiographical changes to the study of women, gender, and sexuality in premodern Europe across the 1990s into the 2010s. Developing from post-Baby Boom interest in marriage and the family, subsequently ...
Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy
1st Edition
By Clifford J. Rogers
July 20, 2026
This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other. It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages, as well the military transition to the Early ...
Reflections on Observational Astronomy in the Medieval Islamic Period
1st Edition
By S. Mohammad Mozaffari
July 20, 2026
This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries. The chapters compiled here, originally published between 2012 and 2018, have undergone significant revisions to ...
Studies in Byzantine Monasticism
1st Edition
By Alice-Mary Talbot
July 20, 2026
This volume includes seventeen essays on Byzantine monasticism, focusing on the 9th to 15th centuries. Envisaged as a companion Variorum volume to Talbot's Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (2001), this compendium complements its predecessor by focusing more attention on male monasteries, ...
The Making of Irish Geology 1740–1940
1st Edition
By Patrick N. Wyse Jackson
July 20, 2026
Ireland has long been the focus of research into its geological foundations and history. This book provides insights into the evolution of geological ideas in Ireland, gives assessments of underrepresented scientists, and offers an appreciation of the value of geological collections for historical ...
Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture
1st Edition
By Helen J. Nicholson
July 20, 2026
Known worldwide among scholars of medieval Europe for her books on the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar, the trial of the Templars in Britain and Ireland, and women and the crusades, Professor Helen J. Nicholson has drawn together in this volume a selection of her shorter publications, ...