Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

A collection of 11 articles - 9 in English and 2 in French - on the medieval councils, decretals and collections of canon law. There are additional notes and fully revised and detailed indexes for this second edition.

Offers a description of China in the time of Mongol rule. Among the topics addressed are a Chinese historiography for that time; the progression from tribal chieftains to universal emperors and gods; Yuang China and Tibet; and a Sino-Uighur family portrait.

An exploration of the culture of natural history in Britain between 1700 and 1900. The author's interests are mainly botanical, but he has attempted from time to time to examine natural history as a unitary whole, revealing parallels and interactions between the separate studies.

Brings together five studies on the Mongol empire. This title relates the early history of the Delhi Sultanate, with reference to the role of its Turkish slave (ghulam) officers and guards. It examines the collapse in 1206-15 of the Ghurid dynasty, whose conquests in northern India had created the preconditions for the Sultanate's emergence.

Concerns with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. This book includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India, Goa in the 17th century, the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33, smugglers, the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys.

Who composed in Charlemagne's name the treatise that repudiates the Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea? This series of essays explores the liturgical background, the Latinity, attitudes towards images and relations between Charlemagne, the pope and Byzantium.

Contains papers which deal with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries. This book provides a survey of the social history of the exact sciences in al-Andalus, and looks at astronomical tables.

Offers a collection of articles on aspects of the history of Late Antiquity. One theme is the prehistory of Late Antique ethical monotheism, illustrated by studies of pagan cults, Mithraism and Judaism. This book discusses the nature of the people who took over large areas of the Western Roman Empire, especially the Visigoths and the Vandals.

These essays examine the thought and works of a series of writers on political thought, religion, historiography and literature from the 16th century to the 19th. The author is concerned to situate individual thinkers in the context of their times and show links between France and England.

This collection of papers also includes "The Study of Medieval Liturgy", "Lanfranc's Supposed Purge of the Anglo-Saxon Calendar" along with "Why do Medieval Psalters Have Calendars?", "St Hugh as a Liturgical Person" and "Prescription and Reality in the Rubrics of Sarum Rite Service Books".

This collection of essays takes the study of history as a starting point, and extends the exploration into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought - confronting some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences, and issues of intellectual, cultural, and political history.

The printed debut of the "Canzone Villanesca Alla Napolitana" occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. This volume traces the Neapolitan origins of this song form, and its subsequent development.

Includes ten essays, which contribute to the re-assessment of how the medieval 'backwardness' of English agriculture was transformed into modern 'progress'.