Böcker i Variorum Collected Studies-serien

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 19 studies on the development of the scientific theory of electricity (especially Newton, Franklin, Eulez and Aepinus), placing this in the context of the scientific culture of England, France and Russia.

A collection of 12 studies in French, three in English, on the processes and practice of justice in cases of sorcery and other forms of deviant behaviour, based on detailed research into the criminal archives of the Parlement de Paris, the most important secular court in France.

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.

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.

The first part of this text examines the place of the city in the historical development of Castile. The second section deals with the controversial question of what impact the conquest of Seville and the subsequent settlement of al-Andalus had on the realm of Castile.

This collection of essays on the history of Portuguese America carries a common theme of frontiers - administrative, social, physical and cultural - and discusses the kinds of individual and collective responses that colonialism has elicited in Brazil.

These 14 studies are concerned with aspects of the history of Christian Spain between the 6th century and 14th century. A recurrent theme is that of the invention of the past, and the ways in which men have sought to appropriate or recolonise it. Also covered is 13th-century papal diplomacy.

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.

This volume deals with the agency of seals within medieval society between 500 and 1500. Their epigraphy, iconography and use are considered, mostly for France, but to some extent for England and Germany as well. Collectively, these essays examine the life of a sign, the seal.

These 15 French and three English studies look at the impact the establishment of Latin Christianity has had on the development of Poland. They survey the Church's expansion between the 10th and 16th centuries; parish organization and the role of the monastic orders.

This is a study of the world of Christian Egypt in Late Antiquity, its philosophy, religion, society and economy, based on detailed papyrological research.

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.

This is a selection of articles by Meleze-Modrzejewski (eight in French; two in German) which deal with the question of personal status and family ties in Classical law, both Greco-Roman and Eastern. The selection covers the period up to the Christian era, with Hellenistic Egypt as its focus.

This work offers all the articles published by the late Dr A.H. Shorter. They concern his work on British papermaking, offering the history of many paper mills in Britain after 1800.

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.

In addition to Thompson's contributions to the revisionist history of the Cortes of Castile, this volume includes essays questioning the applicability of "absolutism" to characterize the exercise of royal authority in 17th-century Castile.

This second selection of articles by Rupert Hall to be published by Variorum focuses on the interactions between "pure" science, "applied" science and craftsmanship, laying emphasis on the period from the 17th century to the Industrial Revolution.

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.

Examines the Ottoman Empire land-holding system and how large estates responded to Western European demands for Ottoman agricultural produce. It also covers the military history of the Empire and its socio-economic effects. Census records are used to study the position of non-Muslim groups.