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Variorum Collected Studies


About the 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]

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Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650

Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650

1st Edition

By Brian Croke
April 18, 2023

Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear, with the recasting of the period, across both east and west, as ‘late ...

Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing

Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing

1st Edition

By Dorothea McEwan
March 21, 2023

Originally published in German, Italian and French these articles have been translated into English for the first time by the author, the former archivist of The Warburg Institute, London. Aby Warburg’s research and writings centred on images, their origins and metamorphoses, and their explanations...

Medieval Literature and Social Politics Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts

Medieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts

1st Edition

By Stephen Knight
January 09, 2023

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues...

Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition

Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition

1st Edition

By Stephen Gersh
January 09, 2023

Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition consists of twelve essays originally published between 2006 and 2015, dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieval Platonic tradition. Three essays provide general surveys of the transmission of late ancient ...

Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture

Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture

1st Edition

By Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
January 09, 2023

Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. The book addresses multiple issues related to the histories of science and culture during the Ottoman era. Most of the articles contained in this volume were the first ...

Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe Studies in Sources and Source Criticism

Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe: Studies in Sources and Source Criticism

1st Edition

By David S. Bachrach, Bernard S. Bachrach
January 09, 2023

Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe brings together fourteen articles by eminent historians David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach. Crucial to the writing of medieval military history is a thorough understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the available source ...

Medieval Greece Encounters Between Latins, Greeks and Others in the Dodecanese and the Mani

Medieval Greece: Encounters Between Latins, Greeks and Others in the Dodecanese and the Mani

1st Edition

By Michael Heslop
December 19, 2022

Medieval Greece brings together twelve articles by historian Michael Heslop, showcasing his long-standing interest in the medieval castles of Greece. Ten of the articles in this volume focus on the Dodecanese islands, mainly Rhodes, at the time of their rule by the Hospitallers during the period ...

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Alexandra F. Johnston, Pamela M. King
December 19, 2022

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production ...

Writing Normandy Stories of Saints and Rulers

Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers

1st Edition

By Felice Lifshitz
December 19, 2022

Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the past were created and revised in Normandy during the central Middle Ages. ...

Le marchand et les poids et mesures

Le marchand et les poids et mesures

1st Edition

By Jean-Claude Hocquet
November 01, 2022

Published in French in this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty years of scholarship and publication. Many have been updated and translated from German and Italian into French for the first time. The chapters all deal with merchants, of whom the author is a world-renowned ...

Trade and Enterprise The Muslim Tujjar in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran, 1860-1914

Trade and Enterprise: The Muslim Tujjar in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran, 1860-1914

1st Edition

By Gad Gilbar
October 31, 2022

Until recently, the historiography of Middle Eastern economic elites during the first globalization has ignored the significant role played by Muslim tujjār (big merchant-entrepreneurs). Foreign firms and local minorities were considered the prime agents of economic change and the initiators ...

Aspects of Recusant History

Aspects of Recusant History

1st Edition

Edited By Jos Blom, T.A. Birrell, Frans Korsten, Frans Blom
August 01, 2022

Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924–2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English and American Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very ...

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