The Life of Barsauma belongs to the genre of Christian hagiography, that is saints’ lives—a genre that flourished during Late Antiquity (circa 300-600 CE). With Emperor Constantine (306-337), Christianity became a licit, and later in the f..
Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze
Johannes Hahn holds the Chair in Ancient History at the University of Münster, Germany. His research interests mainly comprise the Roman Empire and late antiquity. He has published extensively on the relationship of society and religion in the Roman Empire, especially on religious conflict and religious violence, and is editor of several volumes, including Expropriation and Destruction of Synagogues in Late Antiquity (forthcoming).
Volker Menze is Associate Professor of Late Antique History at the Central European University in Budapest/Vienna. His publications include Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church (2008); he is currently writing a monograph, The Last Pharaoh of Alexandria: Patriarch Dioscorus and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire.