New digital resource from Liverpool University Press
300-800 AD is the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages: the transformation of the classical world, the beginnings of Europe and of Islam, and the evolution of Byzantium. The renowned Translated Texts for Historians book series makes available historical sources from this period translated into English, in many cases for the first time.
The new Translated Texts for Historians E-Library offers this invaluable collection as a digital library:
* Comprehensive: 50-volume digital library with over 13,000 pages of translated historical sources.
* Wide-ranging: The translated texts span 300-800AD and have been translated into English from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish. The geographic range covers Syria, Arabia, Armenia, Georgia and Egypt in the East; North Africa; major cities of the Roman Empire (Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople); and Spain, Gaul, Italy, Britain and Ireland in the West.
* Variety of texts: Types of writing include histories, chronicles, letters, annals, formularies, compendia, political speeches, military and theological handbooks, poems, documentary sources, records of church councils, biblical and theological commentaries, sermons, church histories, Christian treatises, Christian and pagan panegyric and polemic, Neoplatonic texts, Lives of saints, bishops and popes.
* Continuous access: 24/7 access to the most authoritative and scholarly translations of these texts.
* Invaluable: Each volume of scholarly translation includes an introduction setting the text into context, and rigorous notes on content, interpretation and debates.
* Easy access for your library: hosted by MetaPress on a fully searchable online platform with industry standard usage reports.
For further details and pricing, please contact: Jennifer Howard, Sales and Marketing Manager, Liverpool University Press, 4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK. Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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