Geoffrey D. Dunn/Christine Shepardson: Introduction
Part One: Strategies of De-escalation
Silke-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 Competition
Part Two: Strategies of Escalation
Chris 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