Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

The subject of these articles 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 concerned with the broader implications of medieval law; other sections focus on the history of the Glossators in modern research.

A collection of articles concerned with the growth, topography and local history of Baghdad as one of the principal urban centres of the medieval world and a microcosm of much of the Islamic world at that time. The author develops the theme of authority and power.

Concerned primarily with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval crusades, this text considers the roles of individual crusaders, practical issues and consequences for the institutions of medieval Europe and the crusader's family relationships.

This collection of 22 studies in French considers the nature of the bishop's authority in the Early Church and the sources from which it was drawn. It also looks at pastoral care and points to the great diversity of forms of worship and rite from the earliest days of the Church.

The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years. These articles aim to demonstrate that a progressive Aristotelianism in fact provided the foundation for Galileo's scientific discoveries.

A collection of studies concerned with the value and meaning of Christian holiness and spirituality, notably as expressed in hagiographic literature, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages.

These studies reflect the author's interest in history as it was lived: not only social and economic structures, but the men and women who made them function. The role of women in Byzantine economy and society is found to be much more important than had been believed.

A collection of studies on the theological and literary activities of the monks in Palestine in the early Islamic period. The papers are concerned especially with the translation of Christian texts into Arabic and the Christian reaction to developing Muslim theology.

Contains 15 studies - five of which are in French - on the theory of music in medieval Islamic and Jewish thought. It examines in particular its scientific and philosophical aspects, as well as the concept of music in religious doctrine.

The first part of this text studies the impact of Roman civilization on the Empire's clients in the West, claiming that even the Vandals in North Africa did not escape the grasp of the Roman Empire. The latter articles deal with the "Historia Augusta", its literary context and topical content.

A study of French law and custom in the 12th and 13th centuries. Topics covered include medieval Roman law, canon law, and custom.

From the 12th century, merchants from north Italian and southern French towns were able to take advantage of Christian conquests in Italy, Sicily and the Levant to dominate the markets of those regions and of North Africa. This book examines the impact of this combination of conquest and trade.

Most articles in this work cover military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries. Some are studies of the history of particular orders. The majority, however, are broader in scope, discussing the development, organization and activities of the military orders up to the early 14th century.

This work offers detailed information and assessments of the part played by the military in Islamic history. It ranges from the military reforms of Caliph al-Muctasim, through military slavery in Egypt and Syria, to Islam versus Christian Europe and the impact of firearms on the Muslim world.

An interpretation of how the precious metals which were imported into Asia in return for goods such as spices, textiles and raw silk in the early modern period, were turned into the coinage of the countries concerned. The issue is explored in terms of the Dutch East India Company's operations.

Discusses the appropriation of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam. This volume focuses on Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most influential figures of the 11th century, and on his contribution to the science of optics and the psychology of vision.

This volume contains 13 studies on the impact of the Enlightenment on the political thought and culture of the Balkans in the 18th-19th centuries, and on the development of the concept of nationality, in particular amongst the Greek-speaking peoples.

These studies deal with the complex and variegated phenomenon of Syriac Christianity as a cultural system, in and through which the many religious communities in Late Antiquity in the Syriac East identified themselves and came to terms with other religions and changing historical situations.

This volume contains 15 studies on movements of religious reform and the literary conventions of the period from 1491 to 1591. It concentrates on the life and writing of Ignatius Loyola and the writings of John of the Cross.

This work examines the Byzantine liturgy. It encompasses the liturgy of the Great Church; a 12th-century diataxis in codex; paradigms in the formation of the Byzantine liturgical synthesis between Constantinople and Jerusalem; and the interpolation of the Sanctus into the anaphora.

These are 12 studies in English, representing the relationship of humanism and religious reform in the 16th-century transformation of European culture. In the context of the cultural and intellectual thinking of the Renaissance and the Reformation, it offers essays on Luther and German humanism.

This work deals with aspects of Zoroastrianism in Iran during the Sasanian period, including the important distinction made between notions of menog and getig, or the spiritual and material modes of existence, and the idea that Ahreman, the Evil Spirit, does not belong in the material world.

This volume focuses on the mathematical sciences in mediaeval Islam - astronomical instruments, the geometry of the sphere and the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin). Four of the articles contain texts in Arabic or Latin, with commentary.

A collection of 19 articles in English on Augustine of Hippo, including an examination of his teaching on deification, often ignored or denied by scholars. The study also includes work on the Pelagian controversy and on the Early Church histories of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede.

This collection of studies on the Arab-Persian medieval Islamic world focuses on historical, religious, cultural and literary aspects of the region from pre-Islamic times to the 15th century. Topics include the Arab caliphate and the successor dynasties, and Muslim perceptions of other faiths.

This collection of revisionist articles, not based on mainstream monetary theory, but on the application of the Doherty-Flynn model to economic history, discusses the nature of the world silver market in the 16th and 17th centuries.