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.
The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300-700 CE). Through case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, it investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians perceived their hostile treatment.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction.
Part I: The Later Roman Empire of the 4th and 5th Centuries
Constantine.
Ruler in Late Antique Literature.
the Syntagmation of Aetius.
Beneficial Persecution.
the Manichaean Discourse of Suffering.
Part II: Post-Roman Kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean (5th and 7th Centuries)
Vandal 'Persecution' of Heretical Barbarians in Late Antique North Africa.
Gelasius, the Language of Persecution, and the Acacian Schism.
Gregory of Tours' Histories.
Visigothic Iberia.
Part III: Eastern Mediterranean in the 5th-7th Centuries
Century Historiography.
Constantinople.
Persecution.
Crises of the Seventh Century.
Concluding Reflections
Discursive Strategies across Late Antiquity.
Index