About the Author

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).

Reviews

‘Price has done much to make the acts of major ecclesiastical councils from the fifth through eighth centuries accessible by producing reliable,  well-annotated translations in the Translated Texts for Historians series... Scholars of the early Middle Ages, Byzantium and early Christianity should welcome the appearance of this volume. The translation has benefitted immensely from Price’s previous work on the ecumenical councils and his thorough engagement with Lamberz’s new edition and conclusions about the acts.’ Philip Michael Forness, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

‘Price offers not only a reliable translation with footnotes but also a comprehensive general introduction to the iconoclast controversy, the council and the acts, as well as introductory observations on the individual sessions and texts which often summarize clearly, and through further observations supplement, the discussions on a particular theme or text that are not always easy to find in the three volumes of my edition.’ Erich Lamberz, author of Concilium Universale Nicaenum secundum: Concilii Actiones I–VII (Walter de Gruyter, 2008-2016)

‘The present work [The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea] is perhaps the finest Price has done so far… Price wades into [iconoclasm’s] complex debates with judicious skill. His seventy-six-page introduction contains one of the most succinct, balanced and insightful overviews of the subject currently in print… this is exactly what a translation should be: accurate, accessible and informative.’ Mike Humphreys, Journal of Roman Studies