Civitas quae adhuc sustentat omnia : Lactantius and the city of Rome / Oliver Nicholson -- Secundum carnem : history and Israel in the theology of St. Augustine / Paula Fredriksen -- Cyril of Alexandria's Contra Iulianum / Robert L. Wilken -- Dic Christi veritas ubi nunc habitas : ideas of schism and heresy in the post-Nicene age / Gerald Bonner --- In the theater of this life : the performance of orthodoxy in late antiquity / Virginia Burrus -- Setting right the church of Syria : Saint Ephraem's Hymns against heresies / Sidney H. Griffith -- Persuading the Donatists : Augustine's coercion by words / Frederick H. Russell -- Clerical celibacy and the veiling of virgins : new boundaries in late ancient Christianity / David G. Hunter -- Constraining the body, expanding the text : the exegesis of divorce in the later Latin fathers / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Christian culture and the swine's husks : Jerome, Augustine, and Paulinus / Philip Rousseau -- This sainted isle : panegyric, nostalgia, and the invention of Lerinian monasticism / Conrad Leyser -- Next life of Augustine / James J. O'Donnell -- Ambrose and Augustine de bono mortis / John C. Cavadini -- Martyrdom and Christian identity : Gregory the Great, Augustine, and tradition / Carole Straw -- In the footsteps of the fathers : the date of Bede's Thirty questions on the book of Kings to Nothelm / Paul Meyvaert -- Gloriosus obitus : the end of the ancient other world.