This year, the Bayeux Tapestry is being displayed in the UK for the first time after 1,000 years. Here, Anne-Hélène Miller, discusses this significant moment and her new book, The Invention of Frenchness. Scene 51 of the Bayeux Tapestry, from the Bayeux Museum. Credit: https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvrir-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/explorer-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux-en-ligne The year 2026 marks the “return” of the Bayeux Tapestry … Continue reading
Translating Peter the Sicilian
In this blog post, Carl Dixon, author and translator of the latest title in the Translated Texts for Byzantinists series, discusses the Paulicians of the Byzantine Empire and the controversies of Peter the Sicilian's writings on them. The Paulicians are one of the more unusual heresies of the Middle Ages. Unlike many of their ilk, … Continue reading
Tribute to Mary Cunningham Corran
Amid the profound and heartfelt grieving over the news of Mary Cunningham Corran’s death on 11 October 2025, I’m trying to find a way to pay tribute to her contributions, not so much to the field of Byzantine Studies as to her irreplaceable role, personal and editorial, especially at the series, Translated Texts for Byzantinists. … 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
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