List of Contributors
Jonathan J. Arnold
is Associate Professor of History and Director of Classics at the University of
Tulsa, Oklahoma. His research focuses on the late antique and early medieval
West, particularly the disintegration of the western Roman Empire and ques-
tions of identity at this time. He is currently translating works from Ennodius
of Pavia for the series Translated Texts for Historians, in addition to publishing
Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration (Cambridge 2014).
M. Shane Bjornlie
is Associate Professor of Roman and Late Antique History at Claremont
McKenna College in Los Angeles. His research focuses on intersections of
rhetorical representation and historical reality from the 4th through the
7th century. He has published Politics and Tradition between Rome, Ravenna
and Constantinople: A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527–554 (Cambridge
2013) and he is currently working on a study of the memory of Roman Empire
in the early Middle Ages.
Samuel Cohen
is an Assistant Professor of History at Sonoma State University, California. His
interests focus on late and post-Roman Italy, with particular attention to social
and religious deviance and its reconciliation. His current research considers
the problem of Ostrogothic ‘Arianism’, the language of heresy, and the devel-
opment of the institutional authority of the early medieval bishops of Rome.
Kate Cooper
is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester. She writes and
teaches about the world of the Mediterranean in the Roman period, with a
special interest in daily life and the family, religion and gender, social identity,
and the fall of the Roman Empire. Her previous publications include The Fall
of the Roman Household (Cambridge 2007) and Band of Angels: The Forgotten
World of Early Christian Women (Atlantic Press 2013).
Deborah M. Deliyannis
is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has
published an edition and translation of Agnellus of Ravenna’s Liber pontificalis
ecclesiae Ravennatis, and also authored Ravenna in Late Antiquity (Cambridge
2010).