Description: This is the first translation of the Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 into any modern language, and the first with a commentary. The synod was a major event in ecclesiastical history, representing the boldest challenge to imperial authority by churchmen that late antiquity had seen.
Brief description:
Richard Price is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. His many previous publications include The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (with P. Booth & C. Cubitt, Liverpool 2014), The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (Liverpool 2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431 (with T. Graumann, Liverpool 2020), Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (Liverpool 2020) and The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (with Federico Montinaro, Liverpool 2022).
Review Quotes: Reviews
'The three authors of this instalment in the Translated Texts for Historians series - Richard Price, Phil Booth, and Catherine Cubitt - set out to provide a manual for the study of the Lateran synod of 649, the monoenergism and monotheletism that the synod addressed, and the decades of political and theological controversy that gave rise to these 'heresies'. They accomplish all this in a volume that pairs a surprisingly compact introduction with an expert translation of the synod's voluminous acts, the first such translation into any modern language ... Each chapter is heavily referenced and effectively orients itself within the dialogue of recent scholarship. And the authors' arguments appear eminently plausible, if not entirely convincing. Price's translation of the Greek acts is superb, and little more need be said of it than that it and indeed the volume as a whole constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of seventh-century religion and politics in the Mediterranean Basin.'
Michael Elliot, Early Medieval Europe