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2019 PROSE Award Finalist for Multivolume Reference/Humanities

Table of Contents

Preliminary matter
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Area Advisors/Area Editors
List of Contributors
List of Contributor Initials
General Abbreviations
Bibliographic Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
A-Z main text
Endmatter
Late Antique Rulers
Principal Roman Emperors and Usurpers
Barbarian Kings
Shahanshahs of the Sasanian Dynasty
Rightly-Guided and 'Umayyad Caliphs
Occupants of the Five Great Patriarchal Sees
See of Alexandria
See of Antioch
See of Constantinople
See of Jerusalem
See of Rome

About the Author

Oliver Nicholson was an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota and taught courses on post-classical Latin authors as well as a sequence of undergraduate courses on the Age of Constantine the Great, of Saint Augustine of Hippo, and of Justinian and Muhammad, for which he has won a few teaching awards. From 1995--2000 he was the Director of the Center for Mediaeval Studies. He has published widely,
especially on Lactantius and the Age of Constantine the Great.