Böcker i Variorum Collected Studies-serien

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.

Focuses on the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period. This was the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face of European competition and monopolies.

A study of Byzantine astronomy.

A history of the forms of punishment meted out in the Latin Church from the time of the Gauls and the Romans to the Middle Ages. Topics covered include penitence and excommunication; penitential pilgrimages; public rites of penitence; evidence from inscriptions; and superstitious practices.

This work on early Christianity looks at a range of topics, among which is Christianity in Africa in the second and third centuries, the cult of the apostles Peter and Paul in the old Roman forms of the Mass, and the vocabulary of the Benediction.

This volume is concerned with the establishment and embedding in the Tuscan countryside, and especially around Florence, of the new forms of piety propagated above all by the Mendicant orders. It brings together de La Ronciere's major articles on this topic.

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 text is concerned with one of the fundamental problems in the economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period, namely, the bifurcation in its development: in Western Europe, the development of capitalism; in East-Central Europe, the rise of the manorial-serf economy.

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 17 studies in English form a loosely connected network around the work of medieval mathematician Thomas Bradwardine; the applications of mathematics in other areas of science; the work of Roger Bacon; and the structure of the continuum and its relevance to medieval and early modern physics.

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 work offers a detailed view of money, prices and power in Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries. It covers sea trade, monetary economics, political economy and social factors. It concludes with an analysis of the end of the 16th century, showing it as a turning point in Polish history.

The studies collected in this volume are concerned with the activity and attitudes of the secular aristocracy between the Carolingian era and the late 12th century.

These 13 essays in English and 2 in French are organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France (absolutism); the political crisis of the mid-17th century (the Fronde); and the development of royal finance. The growth of the French state is considered.

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 essays deal with the effects of public policy on scientific research in Victorian England. The work discusses the use of science in the administration of government along with questions of patronage and official sponsorship of scientists, and funding of scientific research.

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.

These articles explore the individual and corporate aspects of religion in Spain, especially in Andalucia, in the 15th-16th centuries. A particular concern is Christian attitudes towards Jews and Muslims, and the role of the Inquisition.

A collection of essays on the inheritance of verse and prose from the early Norse lands. They look at how Norse literature has been influenced by the communities with whom they came into contact, and the mythological allusion in Eddic and scaldic poetry.

This volume on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in China focus on the interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects. It covers three themes: the adaptability of steppe society; shifts in inheritance procedure; and changes in social parameters.

These articles deal with the history of Christianity in the medieval Arab world, especially the Middle East in the 10th-12th centuries. The text presents studies on a number of Arabic versions of early Christian texts, and deals with a series of theological treatises by Arab authors.

These studies on song repertories and performance practice in the 15th century examine the widely dispersed traces of English song, leading to enquiries into the distribution and international currents of the song repertory in Italy and Spain. Instrument and voice problems are also covered.

These 18 studies in English focus on the relationship between Spain and England from the latter stages of the Elizabethan war to the initial years of the Cromwellian regime.

This volume presents a collection of studies examining the introduction of the Latin language into Ireland and its consequent development. The focus is on the integration of the Latin literary heritage into Irish culture, particularly Hiberno-Latin linguistic and metrical peculiarities.

A collection of 12 articles that discuss the economic and social history of Eastern Europe and Hungary, placing the development of Eastern Europe in the context or world history, and Hungary in the context of Eastern Europe.

The papers in this volume cover the period from the 11th to the 14th centuries. Their main concern is with the northernmost counties of England, and they provide an evaluation of the documentary evidence of the period.

This text examines the ways in which the Baltic region became integrated into the national division of labour and the emerging world economy. It focuses on commodities exported to the Western Europe and examines how the bulk trade stimulated a flow of money in the opposite direction.