Böcker i Variorum Collected Studies-serien

Scattered in tiny enclaves from Africa to Japan, Portuguese Asia included Mocambique, Goa, Macau and Nagasaki. This collection of essays relates the history of Portuguese exploration, colonization and trade in this region during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The title chosen for this volume of collected studies is deliberately ambiguous. Many of the selected articles do indeed focus on the religious life of Byzantine women. Others treat the theme of women's lives more broadly, and yet others examine the religious life of men.

These articles concentrate on the development of Arab cities during the period of the Ottoman Empire, covering the three centuries before the time when modernization encroached and exploring the problems of space and the social and economic realities within these provincial centres.

This study seeks the origins of Italian humanism and the birth of modern republican thought in medieval poetry and prose. It examines the "Laudatio urbis florentinae" of Leonardo Bruni. The author identifies this as a shift from one rhetorical style to another - a shift reflected in other genres.

Geology is the most "historical" of the sciences, yet its own history remains largely neglected, especially the many aspects of how geology was practised in the past. This volume analyzes the careers of some important figures in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish geology between 1750 and 1850.

A selection of Stephen Bonta's published articles, including his study of the early history of the bass violin, and discussions of secular instrumental music, the Italian sacred music of the 17th century and Monteverdi's "Marian Vespers".

Jill Kraye's study explores how Italian Renaissance thinkers engaged with ancient philosophy and what role classical ethics played in Renaissance thought. The author also considers the authenticity of works attributed to Aristotle.

The defining characteristics of patronage relationships and their uses, especially their political uses, are the twin themes of this collection of essays. The collection examines the impact of patronage relationships on state formation and political events during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The articles collected in this volume concern the literature and culture of the ancient Chinese court. The court, especially the imperial court, was a major centre for cultural production. It played an important role in education, scholarship, thought, art, music and literature.

This text is devoted to the two main aspects of medieval warfare: men and technology. From a consideration of human strengths of the period, it goes on to discuss the evolution of technological warfare and associated areas - such as metallurgy, surgery and government centralization.

The papers in this volume fall into four sections: heresy, religious movements and the Church; Wyclif, his path into dissent and his doctrines; philosophical themes, including the decline of scholasticism in the 14th century; and Christian, Augustinian and Franciscan concepts of man.

The majority of the articles reproduced in this study are concerned with the twin illusions of cultural history - continuity and discontinuity. An examination of the translation of Christian culture, the book emphasizes how tradition is a matter of perception - a "making sense" of the past.

This text indicates the course that the author's historical interests have followed since "Past and Present in Medieval Spain". It is a combination of Spanish and Portuguese history and historiography spiced up with the history of canon law.

The articles that comprise this volume reveal the everyday lives of Cistercians living during the late 12th and early 13th centuries in Western Europe. They show how the values of the New Testament affected human attitudes and behaviour.

This volume offers insights into the history of British and European shipping in the centuries of Europe's penetration into the oceans of the world: the 15th to the 18th century. It examines the building, ownership and operation of merchantmen in the context of economic and social developments.

The 24 articles that comprise this study are grouped into four main headings. These deal with various social phenomena in later Roman Egyptian society, Christianization in Egypt, the Egyptian economy and taxation and public services in Egypt.

The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia.

This text examines theories of government in the medieval church, and of medieval guild and city organization and ideology. It also looks at the origins of the modern state in Europe and compares the similarities and differences in the development of political thought in Christendom and Islamdom.

These essays explore political and institutional aspects of the changing relationship between France and Brittany, within the context of Anglo-French relations, as well as social consequences of the development of a largely autonomous state within the larger French kingdom.

Through Danzig, now Gdansk, passed the greatest part of the trade that linked the West with Poland and the Baltic. This book examines the social and economic sides of this process, looking at articles of commerce and trends in urbanization, as well as patterns of poor relief and gender relations.

This collection brings together a series of studies by Peter Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century. Some essays focus on the 13 North American colonies, the West Indies and British contact with China; the majority deal with the processes and dynamics of empire-building.

The studies in this book are concerned with aspects of the remarkable development of this religion.

Jean Richard's study explores the relationships between the crusaders and their heathen foes during the crusading period. The author shows how inseparable the crusades and the pilgrimages were.

Preface; The French Estates and the Corpus Mysticum Regni; When and why Hotman wrote the Francogallia; The monarchomach triumvirs: Hotman, Beza, and Mornay; 'Quod omnes tangit' - a post scriptum; Medieval jurisprudence in Bodin's concept of sovereignty; The presidents of Parlement at the royal funeral; Rules of inheritance.

The third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar, this book aims to integrate knowledge of Islamic art with Islamic culture and history as well as with the global concerns of the History of Art. It covers topics such as architecture, painting, objects, iconography, theories of art, aesthetics and ornament.

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier" (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal.

Meercier's work shows that there is a unity in medieval astronomy in spite of the great diversity in cultural settings, which included South and Central Asia, the Middle East, Byzantium, and Europe.