Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 Ce): a Survey of the Evidence from Episcopal Letters (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)

Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and information-transfer in the period from 410 to 590 CE