Böcker i Variorum Collected Studies-serien

A collection of studies which covers the differences in the style and organisation of scientific activity in Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This exploration of organisation and power is complemented by a comparative study of the practice of early 'physics' and chemistry and their different reliance on laboratories.

Includes essays united with the following theme: the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe.

Includes essays that approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading.

Concerned with the geological sciences in the 18th century, with special emphasis on France and French scientists. This title focuses on the geologist Nicolas Desmarest, whose investigations in Auvergne and Italy (among other places) had important consequences in geological theory and practice.

Features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. This work also includes essays that interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery, and gendered constructions of maternity.

Features articles that analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting. This work also shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants.

Part of "Variorum" series, this book presents a collection of essays that range from a case-study of a single crowded Norfolk manor to a consideration of the broad and, towards the end of the Middle Ages, widening contrasts that persisted between North and South.

Explores problems in Fatimid history and historiography, many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty within the empire and outside. This work also looks at issues in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam.

Features essays that examine clerical and ordinary chants and tropes of the mass, certain aspects of chant notation and particular facets of the old Beneventan and the old Roman chant repertories in relation to the three main cultic centres of the Italian south - Benevento, Montecassino and Rome - and as they relate to their European context.

Argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. This book presents a collection of essays that deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, physicist John Tyndall, and philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer.

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.

This collection of articles focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined - even collapsed - in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian West.