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.

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• ForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviations 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.

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• ForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviations 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.

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• ForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviations 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