Variorum Collected Studies
About the Book Series
The first title in the Variorum Collected Studies series was published in 1970. Since then over 1000 titles have appeared in the series, and it has established a well-earned international reputation for the publication of key research across a whole range of subjects within the fields of history. The history of the medieval world remains central to the series, with Byzantine studies a particular speciality. Other major strands include Islamic studies and the histories of philosophy, science and medicine.
Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. These studies are reprinted from a vast range of learned journals, Festschrifts and conference proceedings. They are an essential resource making available research that is scattered or inaccessible in all but the most specialized libraries.
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Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede
1st Edition
By Arthur Holder
December 26, 2025
Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together 17 essays by Arthur Holder exploring the theology and spirituality found in Bede’s biblical commentaries and homilies. The volume shows that Bede was both a masterful student of received tradition and a creative thinker ...
Studies in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By David Neal Greenwood
December 26, 2025
Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle ...
Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Two Volume Set
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
November 21, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature showcases a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings in two volumes on his central field of research on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic...
Myth and Reality: Studies on the Templars and Hospitallers, Medieval Narratives, and the Trial of the Templars
1st Edition
By Helen J. Nicholson
October 28, 2025
Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen J. Nicholson’s studies of the military religious orders and the crusades. Ranging across subjects as diverse as the Templars’ religious practices, Arthurian romance ...
Wolfhart Heinrichs´ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
October 01, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichsʼ writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous ...
Wolfhart Heinrichsʼ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence
1st Edition
Edited
By Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Alma Giese
October 01, 2025
Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the second of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichs’ writings on Arabic literature, Semitic Studies, and Islamic jurisprudence. Wolfhart Heinrichs (1941-2014) was ...
Studies on Late Medieval Gdańsk
1st Edition
By Beata Możejko
September 30, 2025
Studies on Late Medieval Gdańsk discusses Gdańsk (Danzig), a city whose governing authorities changed in the 15th century, with Polish kings replacing the Teutonic Knights. Located on the Baltic Sea, the town was home to around twenty to thirty thousand people, many of whom made their living ...
The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives
1st Edition
By Sonja Brentjes
September 29, 2025
This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of...
From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians
1st Edition
By Roger Collins
September 25, 2025
This book is a collection of papers on Frankish historiography in the Merovingian and early Carolingian periods, from the late sixth to early ninth centuries, and studies numerous individual texts, evaluating their witness to the events they describe. It also includes hitherto unpublished items on ...
Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam: Idol Worshippers, Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam
1st Edition
By Michael Lecker
May 27, 2025
This volume includes 20 articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muḥammad and the history of early Islam, covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam, Muḥammad at Medina, Muḥammad and the Jews, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and the sīra and studies on early Islamic literature. The ...
Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus
1st Edition
By Donald F. Duclow
May 06, 2025
Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus contains two new essays and nine others published between 2005 and 2019. The essays explore Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus as bold thinkers deeply engaged with their times and culture. John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa are key figures ...
Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies: Practices, Concepts, Questions
1st Edition
By Sonja Brentjes
May 06, 2025
This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the ...