Geoffrey D. Dunn (Herausgegeben von) Born 1962; 2000 PhD, Australia Catholic University; Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy; since 2014 Honorary Research Associate, University of Pretoria.Christine Shepardson (Herausgegeben von) Born 1972; 2003 PhD, Duke University; currently Lindsay Young Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.

• Geoffrey D. Dunn/Christine Shepardson: IntroductionPart One: Strategies of De-escalationSilke-Petra Bergjan: From Rivalry to Marginalisation: Tomus ad Antiochenos and the Paulinus Group in Antioch − Maijastina Kahlos: Heresy Test and the Barbarian Other − Jesse A. Hoover: "A City Founded in a Brother's Blood": Connecting Augustine and the Donatist Church − Geoffrey D. Dunn: Ecclesiastical Rivalry between Rome and Constantinople in the Early Fifth Century: Boniface I's Diplomatic Efforts to De-escalate the Competition and Conflict about Perigenes of Corinth − Wendy Mayer: Using the Past to Reconcile the Present: The Diplomatic Correspondence Presented in Theodore of Trimithous' Vita Iohannis − Chiara Tommasi: Early Christianity in the Celestial Empire: A Foreign Religion between Acceptance and CompetitionPart Two: Strategies of EscalationChris L. de Wet: Cain's Disease: Murder, Medicine, and Pedagogy in John Chrysostom's Reading of the Cain and Abel Story − Pauline Allen: Post-mortem Polemics: The Literary Persecution of Severus of Antioch (512-18) − Bronwen Neil: Rivalries in Rome: Damnatio memoriae and Forbidden Books in the Letters of Pope Hormisdas (514-23) − Christine Shepardson: Remembering the Saints: John of Ephesus' Commentarii and the Polarisation of the Chalcedonian Conflict − Hajnalka Tamas: Hagiography, Liturgy, and Christian Identity in Aquileia from the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries − Alan H. Cadwallader: The Devil's Rap Sheet: Protean Descriptions in the Story of St Michael of Chonai