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Variorum Collected Studies


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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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Customary and Shari‘ah Law in Arabian Society

Customary and Shari‘ah Law in Arabian Society

1st Edition

By R.B. Serjeant
October 27, 1991

The society and legal systems of Southern Arabia, both ancient and modern, form the subject of this second collection of articles by Professor Serjeant. His approach has been to make a detailed study of modern social structures and legal customs and to relate these to what we know of ancient ...

Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages

Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages

1st Edition

By Peter Dronke
October 04, 1991

This volume presents a series of penetrating analyses of particular poems and problems of literary history illustrating the many sides of medieval poetry and the interactions of learned, popular and courtly traditions. The first and longest essay, 'Waltharius-Gaiferos', aims to characterize the ...

Recherches sur l'histoire de la France Médiévale Des Mérovingiens aux Premiers Capétiens

Recherches sur l'histoire de la France Médiévale: Des Mérovingiens aux Premiers Capétiens

1st Edition

By Robert-Henri Bautier
October 04, 1991

This selection of articles by Robert-Henri Bautier deals with the political and institutional history of France between the 6th and 12th centuries, and is above all concerned with the changing extent of the rulers' power from the rise of the Carolingians onwards. A subsequent volume will focus on ...

The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law

The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law

1st Edition

By James A. Brundage
July 12, 1991

This volume is concerned, above all, with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval Crusades. This is an area that the author was the first to investigate systematically, and there are two particular reasons for his approach: one, the conviction ...

Autorité épiscopale et sollicitude pastorale (IIe–VIe siècles)

Autorité épiscopale et sollicitude pastorale (IIe–VIe siècles)

1st Edition

By Charles Munier
June 20, 1991

The first set of articles in this collection is concerned with the nature of the bishop’s authority in the Early Church and the sources from which it was drawn. This is seen in political terms, as in the writings of Justin Martyr, as well as spiritual ones. Charles Munier singles out Tertullian as ...

History and Politics in Eleventh-Century Baghdad

History and Politics in Eleventh-Century Baghdad

1st Edition

By George Makdisi
March 21, 1991

In the present collection of his articles George Makdisi is first of all concerned with the local history and the topography of Baghdad. This is of interest in itself, as a study of one of the principal urban centres of the medieval world, but it also has a broader significance. For Baghdad, as the...

Studies in the History of Medieval Canon Law

Studies in the History of Medieval Canon Law

1st Edition

By Stephan Kuttner
March 21, 1991

This fourth selection of articles by Professor Kuttner complements the volumes previously published by Variorum. Its subject is the history of the Church law of the Middle Ages, and the manner in which it has been studied. One group of articles is particularly concerned with the broader ...

The Golden Chain Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity

The Golden Chain: Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity

1st Edition

By John Dillon
March 21, 1991

This volume gathers together a series of widely -scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship ” The Golden Chain” from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism. The main emphasis, however, is on the first three centuries AD. The first ...

Politique et société en Sicile, XIIe–XVe siècles

Politique et société en Sicile, XIIe–XVe siècles

1st Edition

By Henri Bresc
February 14, 1991

In the 12th century, under its Norman rulers, Sicily stood as one of the most flourishing regions of the Mediterranean; by the late 15th century it had sunk into the state of semi-colonial depression and dependence that has chartacterized so much of its modern history. It is this transformation ” ...

L'Ibérie Chrétienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe siècles)

L'Ibérie Chrétienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe siècles)

1st Edition

By Ch.-E. Dufourcq, Jacques Heers
November 22, 1990

The late Ch.-E. Dufourcq was one of the first to map out the relations between the Christian and Muslim coastlands of the medieval western Mediterranean. These studies reveal the extent of the contribution he made to the subject, and the care and attention with which he handled the scattered ...

Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam

Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam

1st Edition

By M.J. Kister
November 22, 1990

In this second collection of his articles, Professor Kister has continued his investigation into the social and religious history of Arabia. The papers are based essentially on a study of the traditions preserved in the early Arabic sources, many unpublished. As the author demonstrates, these ...

Droit impérial et traditions locales dans l'Égypte romaine

Droit impérial et traditions locales dans l'Égypte romaine

1st Edition

By Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski
September 28, 1990

In the first centuries after the Roman occupation of Egypt the local laws and traditions of the Greek-speaking population were brought face to face with the demands and structures of the legal system of the Empire. The articles in this volume examine how the two interacted, and are based upon ...

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