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.
For further information about contributing to the series please contact Michael Greenwood at [email protected]
Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
October 01, 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 ...
Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam: Idol Worshippers, Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam
1st Edition
By Michael Lecker
May 27, 2025
This volume includes 20 articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muḥammad and the history of early Islam, covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam, Muḥammad at Medina, Muḥammad and the Jews, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and the sīra and studies on early Islamic literature. The ...
Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus
1st Edition
By Donald F. Duclow
May 06, 2025
Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus contains two new essays and nine others published between 2005 and 2019. The essays explore Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus as bold thinkers deeply engaged with their times and culture. John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa are key figures ...
Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies: Practices, Concepts, Questions
1st Edition
By Sonja Brentjes
May 06, 2025
This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the ...
Studies on Eastern Orthodox Church Chant
1st Edition
By Svetlana Kujumdzieva
May 06, 2025
This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject through various languages, practices, and liturgical books and letters. The subject of this book is also analysed through newly found, unique material, to provide the entire history of ...
The Winged Lion and the Eight-Pointed Cross: Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the Mediterranean in Early Modern Times
1st Edition
By Victor Mallia-Milanes
May 06, 2025
The papers reprinted in this volume focus on the extraordinary and multifaceted relationship between two Christian States: the Republic of Venice and the Island Order State on Hospitaller Malta between 1530 and the late 1790s. It was marked by three distinct phenomena – military cooperation along ...
Etat et société dans l’Empire Ottoman, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles: La terre, la Guerre, les Communautés
1st Edition
By Gilles Veinstein
January 30, 2025
The first group of studies in this volume tackles the controversial question of the nature of the Ottoman landholding system and the extent to which large estates, the çiftlik, emerged as a reaction to the increasing Western European demand for Ottoman agricultural produce. The following section ...
From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond
1st Edition
By Averil Cameron
January 30, 2025
Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect ...
Reading Gender: Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies
1st Edition
By Felice Lifshitz
January 30, 2025
This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German. All the essays use gender as the main category of analysis, whether of late ancient or early medieval texts or of modern ...