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
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
Vincent Gillespie, 1954-2025
Liverpool University Press was greatly saddened to learn of the death of Prof. Vincent Gillespie on 13th March 2025. Vincent was Series Editor of Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies from 2002 to 2023. During that time he was instrumental in commissioning and publishing over 50 volumes for the series, first under the auspices of University of … Continue reading
Translated Texts for Historians at 40: 1985-2025
Translated Texts for Historians (TTH), the acclaimed series of translations of a wide range of texts in many ancient languages from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (300-800 CE), is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year. Now numbering 86 volumes and counting, the series has many highlights, providing English translations of both world-famous and … Continue reading
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