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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

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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
Autorenporträt
Pauline Allen, Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, is known internationally for her work on homiletic literature, Maximus the Confessor, the Council of Chalcedon, Severus of Antioch, and letter-writing in Late Antiquity. She is research associate in the Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria. Bronwen Neil holds the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin at Australian Catholic University, and is Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies. She has published widely on Maximus the Confessor, Pope Martin I, Anastasius Bibliothecarius and Pope Leo I, as well as poverty and welfare in Late Antiquity.