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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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Classical Islamic Theology: The Ash`arites Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. III

Classical Islamic Theology: The Ash`arites: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. III

1st Edition

Edited By Dimitri Gutas, Richard M. Frank
September 28, 2008

This is the third of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America, and completes the set. The present volume on the Ash`arites and the classical Ash`arite tradition brings together articles written in...

Early Islamic Theology: The Mu`tazilites and al-Ash`ari Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II

Early Islamic Theology: The Mu`tazilites and al-Ash`ari: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II

1st Edition

By Richard M. Frank, Dimitri Gutas
February 28, 2007

This is the second of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America. It brings together Franks's articles on early kalam, the Mu`tazilites, and the development of the thought of al-Ash`ari. The studies...

Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition

Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition

1st Edition

By Dimitri Gutas
December 14, 2000

Professor Gutas deals here with the lives, sayings, thought, and doctrines of Greek philosophers drawn from sources preserved in medieval Arabic translations and for the most part not extant in the original. The Arabic texts, some of which are edited here for the first time, are translated ...

Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy Essays on his Life, Method, Heritage

Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy: Essays on his Life, Method, Heritage

1st Edition

By Dimitri Gutas
June 30, 2020

The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life ...

Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I

Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I

1st Edition

Edited By Dimitri Gutas, Richard M. Frank
December 23, 2005

The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (...

Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th–17th Centuries Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge

Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th–17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge

1st Edition

By Sonja Brentjes
October 28, 2010

This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns. The first is how we should understand the relationship between Christian ...

From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle Medieval Occitan Poetry of War

From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle: Medieval Occitan Poetry of War

1st Edition

By Gérard Gouiran, Linda Paterson
April 15, 2020

In this collection of essays Gérard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of medieval Europe, he ...

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals I Studies on the Image of Christ, the Virgin and Narrative Scenes

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals I: Studies on the Image of Christ, the Virgin and Narrative Scenes

1st Edition

By John A. Cotsonis
April 07, 2020

The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables, charts and graphs in their analysis of iconographic trends and changing...

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal Piety

The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II: Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal Piety

1st Edition

By John A. Cotsonis
April 07, 2020

The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables, charts and graphs in their analysis of iconographic trends and changing...

Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century England

Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century England

1st Edition

By David S. Bachrach
March 31, 2020

The essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach offers new ...

The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

1st Edition

By Marjorie Reeves
December 17, 2019

The essays here collect the author’s further researches since the publication of her pathbreaking Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages in 1969. In part stimulated by responses to the book, they also show the extent to which the field then opened up has now expanded. In the last forty ...

Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages Texts and Societies

Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Societies

1st Edition

By Wendy Davies
December 11, 2019

A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of medieval rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages. Principal themes are scribal practice and the analysis of charter ...

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