Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Éric Fournier The Christian Discourse of Persecution in Late Antiquity: An

Introduction.

Part I: The Later Roman Empire of the 4th and 5th Centuries

Elizabeth Depalma Digeser Breaking the Apocalyptic Frame: Persecution and the Rise of

Constantine.

Nathaniel Morehouse Begrudging the Honor: Julian and Christian Martyrdom.

Maijastina Kahlos A Misunderstood Emperor? Valens as a Persecuting

Ruler in Late Antique Literature.

Byron MacDougall Theologies under Persecution: Gregory of Nazianzus and

the Syntagmation of Aetius.

Adam Ployd For Their Own Good: Augustine and the Rhetoric of

Beneficial Persecution.

Mattias Brand In the Footsteps of the Apostles of Light: Persecution and

the Manichaean Discourse of Suffering.

Part II: Post-Roman Kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean (5th and 7th Centuries)

Éric Fournier ‘To Collect Gold from Hidden Caves.’ Victor of Vita and the

Vandal ‘Persecution’ of Heretical Barbarians in Late Antique North Africa.

Samuel Cohen ‘You Have Made Common Cause with their Persecutors’:

Gelasius, the Language of Persecution, and the Acacian Schism.

Éric Fournier Everyone but the Kings: The Rhetoric of (Non-)Persecution in

Gregory of Tours’ Histories.

Molly Lester Persecutio, Seductio, and the Limits of Rhetorical Intolerance in

Visigothic Iberia.

Part III: Eastern Mediterranean in the 5th-7th Centuries

Rebecca S. Falcasantos The City a Palimpsest. Rewriting Arian Violence in Fifth-

Century Historiography.

Jason Osequeda The Name of Ill-Omen: Basiliscus and the Church in

Constantinople.

Christine Shepardson Martyrs of Exile: John of Ephesus and Religious

Persecution.

Ryan Strickler Persecution and Apostasy: Christian Identity during the

Crises of the Seventh Century.

Concluding Reflections

Wendy Mayer Heirs of Roman Persecution: Common Threads in the

Discursive Strategies across Late Antiquity.

Index

Éric Fournier is Professor of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Wendy Mayer is Associate Dean for Research and Professor at University of Divinity, Australian Lutheran College.