Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity

Robin Whelan is Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean History at the University of Liverpool. His first book, Being Christian in Vandal Africa (2018), was joint winner of the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize. He has published widely on the political, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire, the post-imperial West, and early Byzantium.

• Introduction; Part I. Requirements: 1. Making the state Christian: religious uniformity and administration, 300–600 CE; 2. Confession and conformity in East and West; 3. The contours of uniformity: excluded groups in late ancient administration; Part II. Models: 4. Terms of service: representing Christian officials in late ancient texts; 5. How to be both: models of pious governance; Part III. Entanglements: 6. Imperial Christians: palace and churches in fifth- and sixth-century Constantinople; 7. Our people in the palace: official churchgoing and patronage at post-imperial courts; 8. Communication strategies: provincial governors and Christian communities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.