Books in the Variorum Collected Studies series

These essays deal with the questions of navigation and the intellectual challenges posed by Spain's acquisition of an empire across the Atlantic. It examines 16th-century Sevillian cosmographers and pilots, specific problems encountered and the revitalization of Spanish nautical science.

This work offers a detailed view of money, prices and power in Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries. It covers sea trade, monetary economics, political economy and social factors. It concludes with an analysis of the end of the 16th century, showing it as a turning point in Polish history.

This volume examines two aspects of the varied pontificate of Innocent III (1198-1216). It views papal authority and the pastoral role of the pope as complimentary actions of papal activity and as essential and equal partner's in the pope's faith and mission.

A collection of ten essays on three areas of North Africa in the Roman Empire. They examine the history of political institutions, followed by details of interaction between sedentry communities in the African provinces. It concludes with two studies on African Christianity.

These essays deal with the effects of public policy on scientific research in Victorian England. The work discusses the use of science in the administration of government along with questions of patronage and official sponsorship of scientists, and funding of scientific research.

These studies deal with the Greek communities outside the boundaries of the Greek state in many areas of the Near/Middle East. These were what the Greeks called "kath'imas Anatoli ('our East') Idea", the "Great Idea" of incorporating all the Greek settlements within the bounds of a single state.

These articles explore the individual and corporate aspects of religion in Spain, especially in Andalucia, in the 15th-16th centuries. A particular concern is Christian attitudes towards Jews and Muslims, and the role of the Inquisition.

A collection of essays on the inheritance of verse and prose from the early Norse lands. They look at how Norse literature has been influenced by the communities with whom they came into contact, and the mythological allusion in Eddic and scaldic poetry.

These articles deal with the history of Christianity in the medieval Arab world, especially the Middle East in the 10th-12th centuries. The text presents studies on a number of Arabic versions of early Christian texts, and deals with a series of theological treatises by Arab authors.

These studies on song repertories and performance practice in the 15th century examine the widely dispersed traces of English song, leading to enquiries into the distribution and international currents of the song repertory in Italy and Spain. Instrument and voice problems are also covered.

These 18 studies in English focus on the relationship between Spain and England from the latter stages of the Elizabethan war to the initial years of the Cromwellian regime.

This volume presents a collection of studies examining the introduction of the Latin language into Ireland and its consequent development. The focus is on the integration of the Latin literary heritage into Irish culture, particularly Hiberno-Latin linguistic and metrical peculiarities.

The papers in this volume cover the period from the 11th to the 14th centuries. Their main concern is with the northernmost counties of England, and they provide an evaluation of the documentary evidence of the period.

The articles in this volume, both in English and German, are devoted to the study of books, readers and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period.

This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the volume.

A collection of articles concentrating on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries. The cultural articles are concerned with perceptions of time and the past and entry to religious life. The articles on spirituality deal with themes of suffering and attitudes towards the self.

A volume focusing on post-medieval legal developments, this book examines the work of Hugo Grotius. It also includes studies in three European languages and covers the history of legal scholarship in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries, the teaching of law and some doctrines of law.

A study of the history of pre-Islamic Arabian society and the emergence of Islam, as reflected in "Hadith", "Adab", historical, genealogical and exegetical literature. Themes discussed include the ethnic composisiton of the population of Mecca and the contribution of Jahili tribes to Islam.

A study of the Alpine area in the Middle Ages. The essays explore transapline activities, mountain economies and territory and society in the Alpine region. The focus is on the Swiss Alps.

This text focuses on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that this underwent when the empire became Christian. Conflicts between Roman and Jewish jurisdiction form an important theme, while particular studies include questions of conversion.

This volume traces the theory that humanity forms a single community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of the community. These ideas appeared in medieval writings and paved the way for notions of international legal order and universal norms of behaviour.

This volume aims to account for the changes in the attitudes towards the world and towards themselves that can be seen in the works of Chinese writers in the early centuries of the Christian era.