The aim of each volume is to bring together, for the first time, a selection of articles by a leading scholar on their particular area of expertise.
This allows easy access to material that may be hard to find separately because it is out of print or available only in specialist libraries.
[1] The purpose of each volume is to bring together, for the first time, a selection of articles by a leading scholar on their particular area of expertise together with an index and, sometimes, new material.
In his review of Roger Scott's Byzantine Chronicles and the Sixth Century (2012, CS 1004), for instance, Conor Whately in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review noted that some of the articles included in the volume were over 40 years old, two were new, and some came "from hard to find publications such as Bysantinska Sälskapet Bulletin, a boon for scholars who might otherwise lack access to them".
They thus had the merit of allowing "a most intriguing conspectus of the development of Sorabji’s thought on a number of topics that have long been of interest to him.