Chalcedon in Context

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).Mary Whitby is Instructor in Greek and Latin in the University of Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford. She is a General Editor of the Translated Texts for Historians series.

• AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroduction - Averil CameronThe Council of Chalcedon and the Definition of Christian Tradition - David M. Gwynn‘Reading’ the First Council of Ephesus (431) - Thomas GraumannThe Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus (449) - Fergus MillarThe Council of Chalcedon (451): A Narrative - Richard PriceTruth, Omission, and Fiction in the Acts of Chalcedon - Richard PriceWhy Did the Syrians reject the Council of Chalcedon? - Andrew LouthThe Second Council of Constantinople (553) and the Malleable Past - Richard PriceThe Lateran Council of 649 as an Ecumenical Council - Catherine CubittThe Quinisext Council (692) as a Continuation of Chalcedon - Judith HerrinAcclamations at the Council of Chalcedon - Charlotte RouechéAn Unholy Crew? Bishops Behaving Badly at Church Councils - Michael WhitbyIndex

'Given the interest and the quality of the work identified as well as the importance and originality of many of the translations proposed in the "Translated Texts for Historians" series, one can not but wish to increase the volumes of their sub-series "Contexts" .' (Translated from French)Dominic Moreau, Cristianesimo nella storia