Bøger i Variorum Collected Studies serien

Presents a selection of studies devoted to the medieval period, centering especially on the T'ang dynasty. This volume includes examinations of landscape and mountain imagery in the poetry of the 'High T'ang' period in the mid-8th century. It includes two articles on birds in medieval poetry.

Both the areas of western Europe - Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), and distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan). This title covers the materials illustrating that these areas are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities.

Collects a set of articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages. This title explores the Ragusa/Dubrovnik archives, considering patterns of gift-giving at marriage and of consumption. It focuses on slavery, specifically women destined for domestic service. It contain historiographical surveys of the field of women and gender studies.

A collection of articles on the society and legal systems of South Arabia, both ancient and modern, using the study of the customary law of modern-day tribal society to illuminate the practices of the past and the development of Islamic law.

These articles study different aspects of the political and institutional history of France between the 6th and 12th centuries, dealing in particular with the disintegration of the Carolingian realm and the reaffirmation of royal power by the Capetians.

Deals with the socio-cultural and legal history of Spain, notably the Basque provinces in the period 500 - 900, from the time of the Visigoths through the period of the Arab conquest, up to the time of Charlemagne.

A collection of studies in religious and ethnic aspects of medieval Islam, including subjects such as Al-Hamdani's description of Northern Yemen in the light of chronicles of the 4th-10th and 5th-11th centuries, land tax and ownership in Northern Yemen and Najran, the origins of the Yemenite Hijra.

Essays on the subject of the monetary history of late-Medieval England and the Low Countries. Emphasis is on the role of coinage, state mints and monetary policies associated with the textile trades, warfare, war-financing, international bullion flows and the "bullion famine" of this era.

A collection of 16 studies in French, with additional notes, on the interaction of legal theory and feudal practices and structures in Southern France during the 11th-14th centuries. The text pays particular attention to the influence of the revival of the schools of Roman law.

A collection of studies of war in early modern Spain. Aspects covered include the impact of war and military spending on the economy; the administrative effects of war; the equipment of the Spanish Armada; and assessment of the Armada's military and political significance.

Covers the period from the end of the Roman Empire to the 10th-11th centuries and the Loire/Rhine region, particularly the Low Countries. The book discusses the "classical" estates of the Carolingian period; offers urban historical studies of Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp; and discusses town origins.

Contains 14 studies, 12 in French and two in English, which examine the origins of the agricultural and landholding systems of early medieval Frankish Europe. This text also consider the role of these systems in Carolingian social and economic policies.

Sixteen studies in English and one in French, examining Newton's programme of investigation and experiment, based on his neglected manuscripts. These consider his relations with contemporary scientists, including Hooke and Huyghens, and the developing influence of his theories.

Contains 16 essays and articles written over 16 years, which trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions. The text shows a society trying to understand the deep structural and mental changes brought on by Martin Luther's revolt against Rome.

Covering 19 studies in English of early medieval Latin glossaries, this volume discusses such works as: the shorter glosses of Placidus; the St Gall glossary; the Affatim Glossary and others; the Abstrusa Glossary and the Liber Glossarum; and the Festus-Glosses of the Abolita Glossary.

These studies consider the Mughal Empire's links with the wider early modern world, and focus on three related aspects of its history - the nature of imperial authority, fiscal and monetary policy, and why the system could not cope with the changes which it had helped to engender.

Uses law to investigate the principles that governed society, and examines manuscript sources of texts. The author focuses on the lives of individual jurists, contending that these provide a key to the understanding of their thought, their position in society, and the connections between the two.

These 18 studies cover topics such as Platonism in late antiquity, Plotinus' adaptation of Aristotle's psychology - sensation, imagination and memory, and soul vehicles in Simplicius.

An analysis of the way in which money - both finances and coinage - was dealt with in the Byzantine Empire. The influence of the Greeks, the history of prices, the reform of money under Alexis Ier Comnene, the devaluation of money in the 11th century, numismatics and other topics are featured.

This collection of articles dealing with language and learning in Renaissance Italy, derive from the Renaissance rhetoric of George of Trebizond and dwell particularly on the work of his rival, Lorenzo Valla. Topics include humanism and rhetoric, the place of religion and censorship.

This volume draws together 17 studies by the author written between 1988 and 1992. All are concerned with medieval canonical law, principally from the sixth to the thirteenth century, and how the institutions of the Church related to secular society of the time.

This work encompasses sacred and secular themes in late antiquity. It covers the Latin fathers, St Augustine, Justinian's ecclesiastical politics, heresy, orthodoxy and paganism in the Latin west, and Augustiniana miscellanea (signs, philosophy and eschatology and conversion).

The main purpose of this book is to provide a contextualization of the Orphic fragments cited by Medio-Platonists and Neo-Platonists, Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author concludes that the "Rhapsodies" were composed from an earlier version known by Aristophanes, Plato and others.

This volume brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher, summarizing his research on the relation of China to its neighbours; the history of nomad society, and the interconnections among the great empires of the early modern age.

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 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 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.