Pauline Allen, Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, is known internationally for her work on homiletic literature, Maximus the Confessor, the Council of Chalcedon, Severus of Antioch, and letter-writing in Late Antiquity. She is research associate in the Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria.Bronwen Neil holds the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin at Australian Catholic University, and is Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies. She has published widely on Maximus the Confessor, Pope Martin I, Anastasius Bibliothecarius and Pope Leo I, as well as poverty and welfare in Late Antiquity.

"a real pleasure to read" – Brian J. Matz, Fontbonne University, Clayton, Missouri, in: RBL, 06/2016"...brimming with important insights. [...] The book is well-written, clearly organized and structured such that it will appeal to any who are interested in crisis, both natural and man-made, beyond the later Roman Empire and its successor kingdoms in the West." – Susanna Elm, Berkeley, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)"A well-researched, original and finely presented study dealing with widely divergent personalities such as Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Gelasius, Leo Magnus, Nestorius, Pelagius I of Rome, Severus of Antioch, Synesius of Cyrene, Theodoret of cyrrhus, and many others." – J. van Oort, in: Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014)

• 1 Crisis in Late Antiquity2 Studying Late-Antique Crisis Management through Letters 3 Population Displacement4 Natural Disasters5 Religious Controversies6 Social Abuses7 Breakdown in the Structures of DependenceConclusionAppendix: Ancient Author Profiles

Pauline Allen, Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, is known internationally for her work on homiletic literature, Maximus the Confessor, the Council of Chalcedon, Severus of Antioch, and letter-writing in Late Antiquity. She is research associate in the Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria.Bronwen Neil holds the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin at Australian Catholic University, and is Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies. She has published widely on Maximus the Confessor, Pope Martin I, Anastasius Bibliothecarius and Pope Leo I, as well as poverty and welfare in Late Antiquity.

"a real pleasure to read" – Brian J. Matz, Fontbonne University, Clayton, Missouri, in: RBL, 06/2016"...brimming with important insights. [...] The book is well-written, clearly organized and structured such that it will appeal to any who are interested in crisis, both natural and man-made, beyond the later Roman Empire and its successor kingdoms in the West." – Susanna Elm, Berkeley, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)"A well-researched, original and finely presented study dealing with widely divergent personalities such as Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Gelasius, Leo Magnus, Nestorius, Pelagius I of Rome, Severus of Antioch, Synesius of Cyrene, Theodoret of cyrrhus, and many others." – J. van Oort, in: Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014)

• 1 Crisis in Late Antiquity2 Studying Late-Antique Crisis Management through Letters 3 Population Displacement4 Natural Disasters5 Religious Controversies6 Social Abuses7 Breakdown in the Structures of DependenceConclusionAppendix: Ancient Author Profiles

Pauline Allen, Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, is known internationally for her work on homiletic literature, Maximus the Confessor, the Council of Chalcedon, Severus of Antioch, and letter-writing in Late Antiquity. She is research associate in the Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria.Bronwen Neil holds the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin at Australian Catholic University, and is Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies. She has published widely on Maximus the Confessor, Pope Martin I, Anastasius Bibliothecarius and Pope Leo I, as well as poverty and welfare in Late Antiquity.

"a real pleasure to read" – Brian J. Matz, Fontbonne University, Clayton, Missouri, in: RBL, 06/2016"...brimming with important insights. [...] The book is well-written, clearly organized and structured such that it will appeal to any who are interested in crisis, both natural and man-made, beyond the later Roman Empire and its successor kingdoms in the West." – Susanna Elm, Berkeley, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)"A well-researched, original and finely presented study dealing with widely divergent personalities such as Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Gelasius, Leo Magnus, Nestorius, Pelagius I of Rome, Severus of Antioch, Synesius of Cyrene, Theodoret of cyrrhus, and many others." – J. van Oort, in: Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014)

• 1 Crisis in Late Antiquity2 Studying Late-Antique Crisis Management through Letters 3 Population Displacement4 Natural Disasters5 Religious Controversies6 Social Abuses7 Breakdown in the Structures of DependenceConclusionAppendix: Ancient Author Profiles