Translated Texts from Antiquity is a sister series to the renowned Translated Texts for Historians series, published by Liverpool University Press for over thirty years, latterly also joined by Translated Texts for Byzantinists. With a broad geographical focus, including the Ancient Near East and Egypt as well as the Mediterranean world to c. AD 300, and a variety … Continue reading
Exploring Rachel Speght: A Trailblazing Voice in Early Modern Polemic Writing
The Life of Rachel Speght, by Helen M. Stringer, has recently been published in the English Association Monographs: English at the Interface series. This blog post explores the biographical study of the boundary-pushing early modern polemicist Rachel Speght. At a time when geo-political borders are hardening all around us at a disturbing rate, the work of crossing … Continue reading
Three Leading Journals to Move from Cambridge University Press to Liverpool University Press in 2026
Liverpool University Press is proud to announce that it will become the new publisher of three distinguished academic journals—Continuity and Change, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, and Arabic Sciences and Philosophy—from 2026, following their longstanding publication with Cambridge University Press.
Trailblazers announces three further contracted books
We are delighted to announce a further three Open Access books from ECRs contracted and to be published via the Trailblazers initiative. Read all about it on the LUP blog...
‘The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice’ by Denys Van Renen
The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post highlights its intervention as the first book-length study to analyze the genre of the picaresque as drawing attention to how the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century iterations of it respond to environmental disasters. Ultimately, the economic precarity of the genre’s low-born characters renders them more attuned to environmental precarity.
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