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]
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 previously published essays by a professional philosopher whose research spans a rich array of foundational questions that shape our lives as rational creatures and moral agents. Promising a fresh alternative ...
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, ...
Armies and Warfare in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany
1st Edition
By David S. Bachrach
June 30, 2026
This volume presents twelve studies, written between 2007 and 2023, which examine the conduct of war in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany from the mid-ninth to the early eleventh century. Grouped thematically rather than by date of publication, the chapters focus on military recruitment...
Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium: Art and Culture 330 – 1453
1st Edition
By Liz James
June 22, 2026
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of ...
Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Barbara Russano Hanning
June 22, 2026
Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came ...
Epigraphy and Theory in the Study of Early Islam
1st Edition
By Ilkka Lindstedt
June 18, 2026
The studies in this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150–750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivotal period in world history. Islam did not emerge in...