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
New Series Editor and Editorial Committee Appointed for Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Eddie Jones as Series Editor of the renowned series Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, joining co-Editor Prof. Richard Dance, following the retirement of Prof. Vincent Gillespie.
Translating ‘Pearl’?
This month we published a new edition of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl, edited and translated by Thorlac Turville-Petre. Pearl concerns a father’s grief for the death of his infant daughter, whom he then meets in a dream. She attempts to bring him to an understanding of the place of death in the divine plan. This … Continue reading
The Middle Dutch Brut, by Sjoerd Levelt
Published in the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series of Liverpool University Press is my edition and English translation of the chronicle which I have called the Middle Dutch Brut. The Prose Brut was the principal historiographical tradition of late medieval England, and exists in various versions in Anglo-Norman French, Middle English and Latin. The … Continue reading
Smells, grid-planning, and urinary medicine… all in one season for LUP’s medieval list!
As part of focusing on Medieval Studies in August in celebration of #LUP120 we take a sneak preview of three medieval titles appearing in Spring 2020. Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale Owen-Crocker and the fourth volume in The Material Culture of Daily Living … Continue reading
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