Ancient History & Classics, History, News

New Series Editors and Editorial Committee Appointed for Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Emma Greensmith and Dr Giuseppe Pezzini as Series Editors of Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, following the retirement of Prof. Alan Sommerstein. LUP is extremely grateful to Alan Sommerstein who took up the mantle from his predecessor Prof. Chris Collard with great energy and … Continue reading

Journals, News

Celebrating National Indexing Day 2025

National Indexing Day The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the seventh successive year on Thursday 27th March 2025. This year we will be celebrating with a half-day in-person workshop for publishing professionals in London, as well as online across social media with the tag #IndexDay. The workshop will be run twice … Continue reading

books, History, medieval studies

A ‘European before the European Union’? Studying and remembering early medieval missionaries in the 20th and 21st centuries

Michel Summer, author of Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739), discusses the notion that the early medieval missionary Willibrord was a European before there was a united Europe, and questions how modern categorisations from the 19th and 20th centuries are applied to the medieval period. On 26 September 2024, Pope Francis paid a … Continue reading