The Convict Ships, 1787 - 1868 by Bateson, Charles - 1988

Belgium : Peeters Publishers, 1994. Edition Not Stated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Binding is tight and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges have some faint marks The main purpose of this volume is to make accessible various unedited Syriac texts on monophysite disputes of the sixth century, the Greek originals of which have largely disappeared. The two disputes covered are the agnoetic and tritheist debates, from the point of view of the 'orthodox' Monophysites. Many of the documents are from the Patriarch Theodosius of Alexandria, but there are also fragments of Anthimus of Constantinople, Constantine of Laodicea, and Theodore the Monk.