Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

This collection of 11 articles deals with the uses made by Muslims of the "hadith" through the ages, particularly in relation to studies on chronology, provenance, and authorship of the prophetic traditions. New methods are used to analyse the studies.

These studies represent Donald Hill's contribution to the history of Islamic technology during the second half of the 20th century, in addition to his monographs on the mechanical devices of Pseudo-Apollonios, the Banu Musa and al-Jazari.

This history of Eastern liturgical ritual reveals the world of the Christian Orient in its variety, and in the profundity of its theological thought. These rituals bear witness to the impact which the liturgies made on the Mediterranean cultures and societes of Late Antiquity.

This text uses anti-Jewish disputational literature to explore the rise of anti-Judaism. Christian theologians between 1000-1150, were trying to work out the relationship between Christianity and Judaism as they attempted to clarify their doctrines. Anti-Judaism was the response to their findings.

This is a collection of articles from various journals on the history of astronomy and astrology in the Medieval Islamic world. They look at subjects such as: Ibn al-Haytham's determination of the meridian from one solar altitude, and an astrological history based on Genghis Khan's career.

A survey of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system from the early 17th to the late 19th century. The book focuses on Dutch plantation colonies, Dutch participation in the illegal slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies.

Dealing with the history of North Africa in the Middle Ages, this book examines the formation of an Islamic state system, and an Islamic society in which Arabism played an increasing part. The subject and the theme derive from the work of Ibn Khaldun at the end of the 14th century.

Drawing upon archival research and musicological theory, these essays investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opera comique to early grand opera. "Media" is interpreted in terms of both narrative systems and practical theatre resources.

The articles in this volume provide a background to the study of pre- and early Islamic history. The studies are based on a wide range of sources, but often focus on illuminating particular accounts which are analyzed and placed in their historical context.

Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism. The articles in this volume question this view, by cataloguing, describing and investigating the tradition of Aristotelian logic during this period, and examining its influence.

The author argues that a real history of women's healthcare in medieval Western Europe has not yet been written as most extant texts relating to it have never been edited or studied. Using insights from women's history and gender studies, she shows how historians must remove layers of assumption.

The essays in this collection deal with a form of criminal prosecution developed by Pope Innocent III and perfected at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. They aim to throw light on how procedural jurisprudence developed and provide a background for study of present-day concerns about due process.

These studies span the period from the origins of the crusading movement in the 11th century until its final active phase during the Renaissance. The book looks at the development of crusades, the conflict with Church, and other forms of religious warfare in Europe in the Middle Ages.

A collection of essays that describe and assess the ways in which royal publicists in Medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regards to protecting and defending Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad.

A study of the interactions of the nomads in the western steppelands of Central Eurasia with their sedentary neighbours, in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins.

From 750 to 850 AD Christians, living under Islamic rule, began to compose theological works in Syriac and Arabic to counter the religious challenges of Islam. Griffith explores the works of writers who apologised for Christianity at that time.

This volume deals principally with Western Europe and Byzantium, which for many centuries learnt from the Muslims in matters of arms, armour and military technology. Several articles also focus on military interactions in the Crusader states.

The main focus of this work is the Ottoman empire's reaction to, accommodation with and eventual acceptance of the Western scientific tradition. Setting this in the context of contemporary cultural and political life, the author examines institutions of learning and the spread of "Western-style".

Focuses on three themes - the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and, the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenomenon of nationalism.

The field of Hiberno-Latin literature, a term coined to describe the Latin literature written in Ireland, or by Irishmen abroad, between 400 and 1500, was first defined by the late Mario Esposito. His work, too, revealed its vast extent and range, so enabling a significantly better understanding of the importance of Irish scholarship in the cultural history of the Western Middle Ages. This volume concentrates on Hiberno-Latin authors, and on texts composed in Ireland; a second collection of EspositoΓÇÖs articles contains studies on Irish learning and texts written on the Continent. The great strength of his research is that it is founded on unparalleled knowledge of the manuscripts - many of which, indeed, no longer survive. The articles, now provided with extensive indexes to facilitate their consultation, therefore form the essential basis and guide for any further enquiry into the authors dealt with or their works.

16 studies in English, dealing with the period from the "barbarian" incursions into the Roman world up to the Carolingian Empire. This text focuses on the origins of "feudalism" and the rise of heavy cavalry using stirrups.

This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam and Studies in Medieval Shiism). The first sections contain articles examining intellectual and historical aspects of Mu'tazilism, the Ibadiyya.

The focus of this volume is the book production of the Frankish regions of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages.

These 11 studies in English are concerned with medieval scientific learning in Europe, including Stevens' "Jarrow Lecture", revised for this volume, on Bede's scientific achievement.

Presents a collection of articles showing how the extensive warfare during the 13th and 14th centuries served as a catalyst for the extension of the king's law across the varied topography and political landscape of eastern Spain. This book focuses on the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon.

Presents twelve studies which are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. This book shows how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they could not see.

Aimed at the historians of Islam and Byzantium, the essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c 550 to 1000 AD. It emphasises social and economic trends and the integration of written and archaeological evidence to elucidate the complex developments in this pivotal part of the world.

Describes the jurists (civilists) of the 12th-century Latin West, that were the bearers of a new science, born in Bologna about 1100. Away from Bologna, these pioneers were isolated, scattered from Scotland to Styria or Catalonia. This book deals with these people and their manuscripts and the relationships between them.