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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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Technology, Industry and Trade The Levant versus Europe, 1250–1500

Technology, Industry and Trade: The Levant versus Europe, 1250–1500

1st Edition

By Eliyahu Ashtor, Benjamin Z. Kedar
April 28, 1992

This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian...

Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium

Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium

1st Edition

By Angeliki E. Laiou
April 16, 1992

The studies in this volume reflect the author’s interest in history as it was lived: not only the social and economic structures, but the men and women, collectively and individually, who made them function. The role of women in Byzantine economy and society is found to be much more important than ...

Quid pro quo Studies in the History of Drugs

Quid pro quo: Studies in the History of Drugs

1st Edition

By John M. Riddle
April 16, 1992

All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothesis that ancient and medieval medicines were effective - a methodology that he ...

Medieval Councils, Decretals and Collections of Canon Law

Medieval Councils, Decretals and Collections of Canon Law

2nd Edition

By Stephan Kuttner
March 26, 1992

First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies. For this second edition they have...

Commerce méditerranéen et banquiers italiens au Moyen Age

Commerce méditerranéen et banquiers italiens au Moyen Age

1st Edition

By Robert-Henri Bautier
February 28, 1992

This is the second selection of articles on economic history by Robert-Henri Bautier to be published by Variorum; the first, Sur l’histoire économique de la France médiévale, focused on the infrastructure of economic life within the kingdom of France - the network of land and river routes, and the ...

Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350–1500

Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350–1500

1st Edition

By John H. Munro
February 20, 1992

Did ’money matter’ in the economic history of medieval Europe? In these essays John Munro has pursued the controversies surrounding the monetary (not ’monetarist’) history of the period, specifically in relation to England and Flanders, and the other Burgundian Low Countries, during the late Middle...

Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth Century England and France

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

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

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

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

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

Religion, Law and Learning in Classical Islam

1st Edition

By George Makdisi
October 27, 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 ...

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