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