The Council of Constantinople of 553 (often called Constantinople-II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council) has been described as by far the most problematic of all the councils, because it condemned two of the greatest biblical scholars and commentators of the patristic era Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestia and because the pope of the day, Vigilius, ...

The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a towering figure in the Byzantium of his day, and the tussle of wills at the council between the papal legates, the imperial representatives and the bishops.

As the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play's unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology.

An Open Accessedition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website andthrough Knowledge Unlatched. Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives.

The episcopate of Ambrose of Milan (374-97) is pivotal to understanding the developing relationship between the Christian Church and the Roman Empire. This volume includes the tenth book of his collection of letters; the letters that are preserved outside his published collection; and his funeral speeches for Valentinian II and Theodosius I.

Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, through its adoption and adaptation in eighteenth-century moral and natural philosophy, to its emergence as a Romantic tradition in the work of six major poets.

'[W]ell researched and thought-provoking... John Mulqueen haswritten an important book and has certainly contributed to rendering theTroubles less parochial.' Jerome aan de Wiel, Canadian Journal of IrishStudies

'[W]ell researched and thought-provoking... John Mulqueen haswritten an important book and has certainly contributed to rendering theTroubles less parochial.' Jerome aan de Wiel, Canadian Journal of IrishStudies

Examines public exhibitions of human anatomy from their first appearance in the early 1700s to the present day, and how these exhibitions taught their spectators to see their bodies.

Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume.

A new edition and translation of the Old English poem 'Andreas', with full introduction, notes, and glossary.

Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human.