Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Introduction / Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What? / Philip Rousseau -- Writing the Reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes / Roger Scott -- Procopius and the Samaritans / Katherine Adshead -- Bury, Malalas and the Nika Riot / Michael Jeffreys -- The Chronicle of John Malalas, Book I: A Commentary / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- The Use of Pagan Mythology in the Christian Empire with Particular Reference to the Dionysiaca of Nonnus / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Notes of Christian Epigrams in Book One of the Greek Anthology / Barry Baldwin -- The Reading of Paul the Silentiary / Ian Martlew -- Early Monasticism and Ps. Denys / Daniel Callam -- Impact of St Sabas: The Legacy of Palestinian Monasticism / Kathleen Hay -- Aspects of Spiritual Direction: The Palestinian Tradition / John Chryssavgis -- Junillus Africanus' Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis in its Justinianic Context / Michael Maas -- The Silence of the Sources: The Sixth Century and East-Syrian \'Antiochene\' Exegesis / Corrie Molenberg -- Severus of Antioch and the Homily: The End of the Beginning? / Pauline Allen -- The Sixth Century: A Turning-Point for Byzantine Homiletics? / Mary Cunningham -- Through the Tunnel with Leontius of Jerusalem: The Sixth-Century Transformation of Theology / Patrick Gray -- Christ's Image versus Christology: Thoughts on the Justinianic Era as Threshold of an Epoch / Karl-Heinz Uthemann -- Sixth-Century Art and Architecture in \'Old Rome\': End or Beginning? / Joan Barclay Lloyd -- Sixth-Century Ravenna from the Perspective of Abbot Agnellus / Ann Moffatt -- Forming and Transforming Proto-Byzantine Urban Public Space / Michael Milojević -- Byzantium, Planet Earth and the Solar System / Paul Farquharson -- Climatic Change in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries? / Johannes Koder -- General Index / Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Contributors / Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys.

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