x list of contributors
Cam Grey
is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the social history of rural communities in
Late Antiquity. Recently, he has focused upon the intersection of social history,
environmental science, and disaster studies in approaching the transforma-
tions that this world experienced. He is the author of Constructing Communities
in the Late Roman Countryside (Cambridge 2011).
Guy Halsall
is Professor of History at York University. He has published on subjects includ-
ing gender and age, death and burial, ethnicity, and warfare and violence in
the early Middle Ages. His current research focuses on western Europe in the
period around AD 600 and on the application of contemporary philosophy to
history. Past publications include Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West,
376–568 (Cambridge 2007) and Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark
Ages (Oxford 2013).
Gerda Heydemann
is a researcher at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy
of Sciences in Vienna. Her dissertation (University of Vienna 2013) examines
Cassiodorus’ commentary on the Psalms in relation to 6th-century political
and theological debates. She is the co-editor (with Walter Pohl) of Strategies
of Identification: Religion and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Europe (Turnhout
2013) and Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the
Early Medieval West (Turnhout 2013). She currently holds a fellowship at the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin, where
she works on the impact of biblical exegesis on the development of Carolingian
legal culture.
Mark J. Johnson
is Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University. He specializes in the
history of architecture and monumental decoration of Late Antiquity and his
recent publications include The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in Late Antiquity
(Cambridge 2009) and The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia (Wiesbaden 2013).
Sean Lafferty
is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
His research includes law, social, and religious history in Late Antiquity and
the early Middle Ages. His previous publications include Law and Society in the
Age of Theoderic the Great: A Study of the Edictum Theoderici (Cambridge 2013).