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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Italian Merchant Bankers in North-Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli
May 18, 2026
Italian merchants played a pivotal role in the international trade of England and the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages. While the field is well established, the examination of a vast array of Italian business sources kept in private and public archives offers important new insights. The ...
French Opera 1730–1830: Meaning and Media
1st Edition
By David Charlton
March 30, 2026
The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume. Drawing on recent archival research and new musicological theory, they investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opéra comique to early grand opera. ’Media...
Venice Between Magnificence and Misery
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Hocquet
March 16, 2026
Throughout the Middle Ages and all over Europe and the Mediterranean, Venetian merchants travelled throughout the known world in search of lucrative business opportunities and trading in anything that could be bought and sold. Envied by its neighbours, Venice came up against powerful enemies, both ...
Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede
1st Edition
By Arthur Holder
December 26, 2025
Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together 17 essays by Arthur Holder exploring the theology and spirituality found in Bede’s biblical commentaries and homilies. The volume shows that Bede was both a masterful student of received tradition and a creative thinker ...
Studies in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By David Neal Greenwood
December 26, 2025
Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle ...
Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Two Volume Set
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
October 27, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings in two volumes on his central field of research on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic...
Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
September 29, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous ...
Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
September 29, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the second of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichs’ writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic jurisprudence. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was ...
Studies on Late Medieval Gdańsk
1st Edition
By Beata Możejko
September 30, 2025
Studies on Late Medieval Gdańsk discusses Gdańsk (Danzig), a city whose governing authorities changed in the 15th century, with Polish kings replacing the Teutonic Knights. Located on the Baltic Sea, the town was home to around twenty to thirty thousand people, many of whom made their living ...
The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives
1st Edition
By Sonja Brentjes
September 29, 2025
This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of...
From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians
1st Edition
By Roger Collins
September 25, 2025
This book is a collection of papers on Frankish historiography in the Merovingian and early Carolingian periods, from the late sixth to early ninth centuries, and studies numerous individual texts, evaluating their witness to the events they describe. It also includes hitherto unpublished items on ...
Medieval Europe From Another Angle: Volume I: The People
1st Edition
By Florin Curta
May 29, 2025
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 ...