The seven documents in this book, which appear for the first time in an English translation from Greek and Latin, constitute a unique contemporary witness to the stalwart opposition of the monk Maximus the Confessor to seventh-century imperial edicts enforcing adherence to the doctrines of monoenergism and monothelitism.

• Introduction


• II: Conciliar Background to Monoenergism


• III: Biographical Documents


• IV: The Text Tradition


• V: Note on the Translation


• Texts and Translations


• 2: Dispute at Bizya


• 3: Letter of Maximus to Anastasius


• 4: Letter to the Monks of Cagliari


• 5: Letter of Anastasius Apocrisarius to Theodosius of Gangra


• 6: Commemoration


• 7: Against the People of Constantinople

Pauline Allen is Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University
Bronwen Neil is Research Associate, the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University