Michael Whitby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham. His many publications include The Cambridge Ancient History XIV, Late Antiquity, Empire and Successors A.D. 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000) co-edited with Averil Cameron and Bryan Ward-Perkins; with Jeff Childers and Claudia Rapp, Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyry of Gaza (Translated Texts for Historians 89, LUP 2025); with David Gwynn and Richard Price, Documents of the Early ‘Arian’ Controversy and the Council of Nicaea (Translated Texts for Historians 91, LUP 2025) and Monastic Saints of Constantinople, 350–500 The Lives of Isaac, Hypatius, Marcellus, Domnica, Auxentius, and John the Calybite (Translated Texts for Historians 92, LUP 2026).

‘Michael Whitby has done a great service to scholars in providing these excellent translations, commentaries, and introductions to two important homilies by the early seventh-century syncellus and preacher, Theodore. The translations are fluent and accurate while the notes provide useful background for every aspect of each text [...] Scholars, students and general readers will benefit from this book, which reflects Whitby’s wide-ranging historical and literary background in the field of early Byzantine history.’Mary B. Cunningham, Plekos

Michael Whitby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham. His many publications include The Cambridge Ancient History XIV, Late Antiquity, Empire and Successors A.D. 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000) co-edited with Averil Cameron and Bryan Ward-Perkins; with Jeff Childers and Claudia Rapp, Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyry of Gaza (Translated Texts for Historians 89, LUP 2025); with David Gwynn and Richard Price, Documents of the Early ‘Arian’ Controversy and the Council of Nicaea (Translated Texts for Historians 91, LUP 2025) and Monastic Saints of Constantinople, 350–500 The Lives of Isaac, Hypatius, Marcellus, Domnica, Auxentius, and John the Calybite (Translated Texts for Historians 92, LUP 2026).

‘Michael Whitby has done a great service to scholars in providing these excellent translations, commentaries, and introductions to two important homilies by the early seventh-century syncellus and preacher, Theodore. The translations are fluent and accurate while the notes provide useful background for every aspect of each text [...] Scholars, students and general readers will benefit from this book, which reflects Whitby’s wide-ranging historical and literary background in the field of early Byzantine history.’Mary B. Cunningham, Plekos

Michael Whitby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham. His many publications include The Cambridge Ancient History XIV, Late Antiquity, Empire and Successors A.D. 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000) co-edited with Averil Cameron and Bryan Ward-Perkins; with Jeff Childers and Claudia Rapp, Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyry of Gaza (Translated Texts for Historians 89, LUP 2025); with David Gwynn and Richard Price, Documents of the Early ‘Arian’ Controversy and the Council of Nicaea (Translated Texts for Historians 91, LUP 2025) and Monastic Saints of Constantinople, 350–500 The Lives of Isaac, Hypatius, Marcellus, Domnica, Auxentius, and John the Calybite (Translated Texts for Historians 92, LUP 2026).

‘Michael Whitby has done a great service to scholars in providing these excellent translations, commentaries, and introductions to two important homilies by the early seventh-century syncellus and preacher, Theodore. The translations are fluent and accurate while the notes provide useful background for every aspect of each text [...] Scholars, students and general readers will benefit from this book, which reflects Whitby’s wide-ranging historical and literary background in the field of early Byzantine history.’Mary B. Cunningham, Plekos