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.

This volume considers how the philosophies of Greek and Roman antiquity shaped - and were reformulated by - the work of medieval ethical and political theorists. They represent an effort to gain a cross-disciplinary perspective on the infiltration of classical learning during the Latin Middle Ages.

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.

This text profiles the Greek philosophers of the Arabic tradition. Topics covered include pre-Platonian philosophy in Arabic, Plato's symposium in the Arabic tradition, and antiquity and the interface between Greek and Arabic.

This volume comprises 20 studies in English relating to the political, social and economic history and culture of the Yemen and Oman, particularly in the early and medieval periods.

Features the essays that treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE. Based on preserved legal documents and the expert opinions of Muslim jurists (Muftis), this title examines family law cases involving legal minority, guardianship, divorce, inheritance, bequests, and endowments.

Using detailed analyses of individual buildings, Hans Buchwald examines the various approaches to Byzantine architectural forms. The book raises a number of questions concerning the use of stylistic and other forms of analysis and explores the aims of Byzantine architects.

Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Frankish Levant as 'disappointing'; Joshua Prawer claimed that the Franks refused to open up to the East's intellectual achievements. This collection, part of the "Variorum" series, presents facts that require a modification of these views.

Focuses on the Ash'arites and the classical Ash'arite tradition. This title includes studies on the science of kalam, that present the author's insights on its very nature and essence, followed by a series of detailed analyses of the physics, metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology of the Ash'arite system.

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.

In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints and marriage.

The origins of the astrolabe are unknown but during the Middle Ages and Renaissance it was the pre-eminent astronomical and astrological instrument. The author describes Renaissance astrolabes and their origins in this detailed study.

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'.