2020
(With Albrecht Diem.) "Monastic Rules (Fourth to Ninth Century)" in Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin (eds.), The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 162-194.
2019
(With Janet Timbie, ed.). The Christian Moses: From Philo to the Qur'ān, CUA Studies in Early Christianity (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press).
Review of Roberto Alciati (ed.), Norm and Exercise: Christian Asceticism between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2018). The Medieval Review. Review posted May 8.
Review of Lillian I. Larsen and Samuel Rubenson (eds), Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Classical Paideia (Cambridge & New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2018). Church History 88: 176-8.
2018
"Hagiography and Displacement: City Readers, Desert Scenes," in Thea S. Thorsen and Stephen Harrison (eds), Dynamics of Ancient Prose: Biographic, Novelistic, Apologetic (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), pp. 145-59.
Review of Derek Krueger, Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative, and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). (Google Reading Religion, then search under "Liturgical Subjects.") Review posted June 26.
Review of Peter Gemeinhardt, Lieve van Hoof, and Peter van Nuffelen (eds), Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity: Reflections, Social Contexts, and Genres (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016). Church History 87:523-26.
Review of Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda (eds), Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden: Brill, 2017). Journal of Ecclesiastical
History 69: 612-14.
Review of Youval Rotman, Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). The American Historical Review 123: 624-5.
Review of Paul C. Dilley, Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.04.36.
2017
Review of Andrew Cain, The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century (Oxford University Press, 2016). Journal of Theological Studies 68: 785-7.
2016
"Gregory's Kings, the Theatre of the 'Modern,' and the Endurance of Romanitas," in Jamie Kreiner and Helmut Reimitz (eds), Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 209-229. Review of Andrew Cain, Jerome's Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae (Oxford University Press, 2013). Journal of Early Christian Studies 24: 448-51. Review of Young Richard Kim, Epiphanius of Cyprus: Imagining an Orthodox World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015). Journal of Theological Studies 67: 808-810.
2015
'Can "Late Antiquity" Be Saved?' in Ellen Muehlberger (ed.), 'Late Antiquity and the New Humanities', Marginalia, LA Review of Books, http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/can-late-antiquity-be-saved-by-philip-rousseau.
'Jerome as Priest, Exegete, and "Man of the Church"', in Geoffrey D. Dunn and Wendy Mayer (eds), Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium: Studies Inspired by Pauline Allen (Leiden: Brill), pp. 186-207.
2014
The Early Christian Centuries (London: Longman, 2002). Reissued as an e-book (Abingdon & New York: Routledge).
2013
'Homily and Exegesis in the Patristic Age: Comparisons of Purpose and Effect', in Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (ed.), The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exegesis (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), pp. 11-29.
Review of Demetrios S. Katos, Palladius of Helenopolis: The Origenist Advocate (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Journal of Religion, 93: 381-2.
2012
Review of Mariachiara Giorda, Monachesimo e istituzioni ecclesiastiche in Egitto: Alcuni casi di interazione e di integrazione (Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 2010). Journal of Theological Studies 63: 730-32
2011
'Homily and Asceticism in the North Italian Episcopate', in Pier Franco Beatrice and Alessio Peršic (eds), Chromatius of Aquileia and His Age (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 145-61.
Review of Edward J. Watts, Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2010). Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 1: 80-81.
2010
Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, 2nd edn, with new introduction and index and updated bibliography (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press).
'Eusebius of Caesarea' and 'Jerome', in Michael Gagarin and Elaine Fantham (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (New York, NY: Oxford University Press), 3: 141-4, 4: 110-12
Review of Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). Journal of Late Antiquity 3: 191-3.
Review of Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity (Oxford & New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009). Classical Review 61: 83-5.
2009
(Ed.) A Companion to Late Antiquity (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell).
Winner of the year's PROSE award for a 'Single Volume Reference Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences'.
(With Manolis Papoutsakis, ed.) Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown (Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate).
'Jerome on Jeremiah: Exegesis and Recovery', in Andrew Cain and Josef Lössl (eds), Jerome of Stridon: His Life, Writings and Legacy ( Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 73-83.
'Language, Morality and Cult: Augustine and Varro', in Philip Rousseau and Manolis Papoutsakis (eds), Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown (Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate), pp. 159-75.
Review of Paul B. Clayton, The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus: Antiochene Christology from the Council of Ephesus (431) to the Council of Chalcedon (451) (Oxford & New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007). Heythrop Journal 50: 709-10.
Review of Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Histoire du catéchuménat dans l'église ancienne (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2007). Cristianesimo nella Storia 30: 222-4.
Review of Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (Oxford & New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008). Catholic Historical Review 95: 585-8.
Review of Mark Humphries, Early Christianity (London & New York, NY: Routledge, 2006). Ancient History Bulletin 23: 185-7.
2008
'Late Roman Christianities', in Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith (eds), The Cambridge History of Christianity, 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c.600-c.1100 (Cambridge University Press), pp. 21-45.
'Human Nature and its Material Setting in Basil of Caesarea's Sermons on the Creation', Heythrop Journal 49: 222-39.
Review of Adalbert de Vogüé, Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l'antiquité, xi: La Gaule franque et l'Espagne wisigothique (VIe-VIIe siècle) (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2007). Catholic Historical Review 94: 540-42.
Review of Stephen M. Hildebrand, The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea: a Synthesis of Greek Thought and Biblical Truth (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007). Heythrop Journal 49: 329-31.
2007
'The Desert Fathers and their Broader Audience', in Alberto Camplani and Giovanni Filoramo (eds), Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism (Louvain: Peeters), pp. 89-107.
'Introduction: from Binding to Burning', in William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran (eds),The Early Christian Book, CUA Studies in Early Christianity, 1 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press), pp. 1-9.
'The Successors of Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi Library: Exegetical Themes and Literary Interpretations', in James E. Goehring and Janet A. Timbie (eds), The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context, CUA Studies in Early Christianity, 2 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press), pp. 140-57.
Review of Derek Krueger, Writing and Holiness: the Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Journal of Religion 87: 92-4.
Review of Claudio Moreschini and Enrico Norelli (eds), Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature, 2 vols (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005). Catholic Historical Review 93: 121-6.
2006
'Ancient Ascetics and Modern Virtue: the Case of Anger', in Wendy Mayer, Pauline Allen, and Lawrence Cross (eds), Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, 4: The Spiritual Life (Strathfield, NSW: St Paul's Publications, for the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University), pp. 213-31.
'Retrospect: Images, Reflections, and the "Essential" Gregory', in Jostein Børtnes and Tomas Hägg (eds), Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press), pp. 283-95.
Review of Albrecht Diem, Das monastische Experiment: die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens (Münster: LIT, 2005). Early Medieval Europe 14: 326-8.
Review of William Harmless, Desert Christians: an Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Oxford University Press, 2004). Journal of Early Christian Studies 14: 541-2.
Review of Carl A. Huffman, Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher, and Mathematician King (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Review of Metaphysics 60: 406-8.
2005
'Cassian's Apophthegmata', Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 48/49 (2005/2006): 19-34.
'Knowing Theodoret: Text and Self', in Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller (eds), The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), pp. 278-97.
'The Pious Household and the Virgin Chorus: Reflections on Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina', Journal of Early Christian Studies 13: 165-86.
Review of Gillian Clark, Christianity and Roman Society (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Classical Review 55: 644-5.
Review of Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton (eds), Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. Studies in Comparative History (University of Rochester Press, 2003). Classical Review 55: 290-292.
2004
'The Historiography of Asceticism: Current Achievements and Future Opportunities', in Carole Straw and Richard Lim (eds), The Past Before Us: the Challenge of Historiographies of Late Antiquity (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 89-101.
'Moses, Monks, and Mountains in Theodoret's Historia religiosa', in Maciej Bielawski and Daniël Hombergen (eds), Il Monachesimo tra Eredità e Aperture (Rome: Centro Studi S. Anselmo), pp. 323-46.
Review of Andreas E.J. Grote, Anachorese und Zönobium: der Rekurs des frühen westlichen Mönchtums auf monastische Konzepte des Ostens. (Stuttgart: Thorbecke, 2001). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55: 133-134.
Review of Rebecca Krawiec, Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2002). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55: 138-9.
Review of Ralph Mathisen, People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity. 2 vols (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003). Journal of Roman Studies 94: 276-7.
Review of Raymond Van Dam, Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55 (2004): 750-52
2002
The Early Christian Centuries (London: Longman).
'Ascetics as Mediators and as Teachers', in James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward (eds), The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown, paperback edition (Oxford University Press) pp. 45-59.
Review of Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: from the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53: 336-7.
Review of Georgia Frank, The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53: 123-4.
Review of Barbara Müller, Der Weg des Weinens: die Tradition des 'Penthos' in den Apophthegmata Patrum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000). Journal of Theological Studies 53: 719-22.
Review of Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria (London & New York, NY: Routledge, 2000). Heythrop Journal 43: 229-30.
2001
Review of John C. Cavadini (ed.), Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity: Imagining Truth (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999). Heythrop Journal 42: 501-503.
Review of Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, Types of Authority in Formative Christianity and Judaism (London & New York, NY: Routledge, 1999). Heythrop Journal 42: 368-70.
Review of Elizabeth A. Clark, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity (Princeton University Press, 1999). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52: 342-4.
Review of Jeffrey W. Hargis, Against the Christians: the Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1999). Heythrop Journal 42: 505-7.
Review of Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: the Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Catholic Historical Review 87: 717-19.
Review of Dennis E. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52: 111-12.
2000
(With Thomas Hägg, ed.) Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press).
'Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life', in Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (eds), Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press), pp. 89-109.
(With Tomas Hägg) 'Introduction: Biography and Panegyric' in Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (eds), Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press), pp. 1-28
'Monasticism', Chapter 25 in Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, and Michael Whitby (eds), The Cambridge Ancient History, 14 (Cambridge University Press), pp. 745-80.
'Sidonius and Majorian: the Censure in Carmen V', Historia 49: 251-7.
Review of Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: an Intellectual Biography (London & New York, NY: Routledge, 1999). Heythrop Journal 41: 474-7.
Review of David Frankfurter (ed.), Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt (Leiden: Brill, 1998). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51: 775-6.
Review of Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1997). Heythrop Journal 41: 218-20.
Review of Anthony Meredith, Gregory of Nyssa (London & New York, NY: Routledge, 1999). Heythrop Journal 41: 490-91.
Review of Lionel R. Wickham, Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-Century Church (Liverpool University Press, 1997). Heythrop Journal 41: 338.
1999
Pachomius: the Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, paperback edition, with a new preface (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press).
'Ascetics as Mediators and as Teachers', in The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown, edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 45-59.
'Baptism', 'Basil of Caesarea', 'bishops', 'Gregory of Nyssa', 'monks', 'Nitria', 'Pachomius', and 'Scetis', in Late Antiquity: a Guide to the Postclassical World, edited by G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
'Christian Culture and the Swines' Husks: Jerome, Augustine, and Paulinus', in The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus, edited by William E. Klingshirn and Mark Vessey (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press), pp. 172-87.
Review of Lynda L. Coon, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, in English Historical Review 114: 398-399.
Review of Teresa M. Shaw, The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998, in Catholic Historical Review 85: 272-275.
1998
Basil of Caesarea, paperback edition (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press).
'The Identity of the Ascetic Master in the Historia Religiosa of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: a New Paideia?', Mediterranean Archaeology 11: 229-44.
'Jerome's Search for Self-Identity', in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, 1, edited by Pauline Allen, Raymond Canning, and Lawrence Cross, with B. Janelle Caiger (Everton Park, Queensland: Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University), pp. 125-42.
'"The Preacher's Audience": a More Optimistic View', in Ancient History in a Modern University, 2: Early Christianity, Late Antiquity and Beyond, edited by T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, and A.M. Nobbs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans), pp. 391-400
'Procopius's Buildings and Justinian's Pride', Byzantion 68: 121-30.
1997
Contribution in 'Peter Brown: the World of Late Antiquity Revisited', Symbolae Osloenses 72: 5-90 (52-5).
'Eccentrics and Coenobites in the Late Roman East', in Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium, Byzantinische Forschungen 24, edited by Lynda Garland, pp. 35-50.
'Orthodoxy and the Coenobite', in Studia Patristica 30, edited by Elizabeth A. Livingstone, pp. 241-58.
Review of Veronika E. Grimm, From Feasting to Fasting: the Evolution of a Sin: Attitudes to Food in Late Antiquity. London & New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, in Journal of Theological Studies 48: 662-665.
Review of J.N.D. Kelly, Golden Mouth: the Story of John Chrysostom-Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop. London: Duckworth, 1995, in Journal of Roman Studies 87: 318-19.
1996
'Ambrose and the Christian Empire: Some Misgivings', in Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, edited by Matthew Dillon (Amsterdam: Hakkert), pp. 477-89.
'Ambrose', 'asceticism', 'Basil of Caesarea', 'Cassian', 'Christianity' (4,000 words), 'conversion', 'Gregory of Nazianzus', 'Gregory of Nyssa', 'Hilary of Arles', 'paganism', and 'Palladius', in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edn, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
'Cassian: Monastery and World', in The Certainty of Doubt: Tributes to Peter Munz, edited by Miles Fairburn and W.H. Oliver (Wellington: University of Victoria Press), pp. 68-89
'Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What?', in The Sixth Century-End or Beginning?, Byzantina Australiensia 10, edited by Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys (Brisbane), pp. 1-19.
Review of David Olster, Roman Defeat, Christian Response, and the Literary Construction of the Jew. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, in English Historical Review 111: 1232-1233.
1995
'''Learned Women" and the Formation of a Christian Culture in Late Antiquity', Symbolae Osloenses 70: 116-47.
Review of Neil B. McLynn, Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, in English Historical Review 110: 1207-1209.
Review of Salvatore Pricoco, Monaci Filosofi e Santi: Saggi di storia della cultura tardoantica. Soveria Mannelli & Messina: Rubbettino Editore, 1992, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 46: 312-313.
Review of Gerd Summa, Geistliche Unterscheidung bei Johannes Cassian. Studien zur systematischen und spirituellen Theologie, 7. Würzburg: Echter, 1992, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 46: 550-551.
1994
Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press).
Review of Carolinne White, Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1992, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45: 116-118.
1993
Review of Charles E. Hill, Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity. Oxford
1992
'Visigothic Migration and Settlement, 376-418: Some Excluded Hypotheses,' Historia 41: 345-61.
Review of Birger A. Pearson, Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1990), Heythrop Journal 33: 335-6.
1991
Review of Leontius, Presbyter of Constantinople: Fourteen Homilies, trans., introd., and notes by Pauline Allen, with Cornelis Datema (Brisbane: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1991), Prudentia 23: 67-8.
Review of R.A. Markus, The End of Ancient Christianity, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), Prudentia 23: 62-67.
1990
'Basil of Caesarea: Choosing a Past', in Graeme Clarke (ed.), Reading the Past in Late Antiquity (Canberra: A.N.U. Press), pp. 37-58.
'Christian Asceticism and the Early Monks', in Ian Hazlett (ed.), Early Christianity: Origins and Evolution to AD 600: Essays in Honour of W.H.C. Frend (London: S.P.C.K.), pp. 112-22.
'The Development of Christianity in the Roman World: Elaine Pagels and Peter Brown', Prudentia 22: 49-70.
1989
Review of The Letters of St Cyprian of Carthage, iv, trans. and notes by G.W. Clarke (New York, NY: Newman Press, 1989), Prudentia 21: 75-6.
Review of Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring (eds), The Roots of Egyptian Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986), Heythrop Journal 30: 195-7.
1988
'Basil of Caesarea, Contra Eunomium: The Main Preoccupations', in D.W. Dockrill and R.G. Tanner (eds), The Idea of Salvation (Newcastle, N.S.W.: University of New England Press), pp. 77-94.
1987
'Saint Augustine: Ascetical Theology', Canadian Catholic Review 5: 136-40.
'Ascetics in their Place' (review article), Heythrop Journal 28: 194-7.
Review of Angelo Campodonico, Alla Scoperta dell'Essere: Saggio sul Pensiero di Tommaso d'Aquino (Milan: Jaca Book Spa, 1986), Prudentia 19: 65-6.
Review of The Letters of St Cyprian of Carthage, ii and iii, trans. and notes by G.W. Clarke (New York, NY: Newman Press, 1984, 1986), Prudentia 19: 57-9.
1986
'The Desert Fathers. Antony and Pachomius', in Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold (eds), The Study of Spirituality (London: S.P.C.K.), pp. 119-30.
Review of Annick Charles-Saget, L'Architecture du divin: mathématique et philosophie chez Plotin et Proclus (Paris: Société d'édition 'Les Belles Lettres', 1982), Prudentia18: 64-6.
Review of Hjalmar Torp, J. Rasmus Brandt, and Leif Holm Monssen (eds), Miscellanea Coptica (Rome: Bretschneider, 1981), Prudentia 18: 66-7.
1985
Pachomius: the Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 8 (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press).
Review of Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson, Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700 (London: Croom Helm, 1983), Ancient Society 15: 109-13.
1983
'The Exegete as Historian: Hilary of Poitiers' Commentary on Matthew', in Brian Croke and Alanna M. Emmett (eds), History and Historians in Late Antiquity (Sydney: Pergamon Press), pp. 107-15.
Review of Renato Polacco, Marmi e mosaici paleocristiani e altomedievali del Museo Archaeologico di Venezia (Rome: Bretschneider, 1981), Prudentia 15: 73-4.
1979
'The Death of Boethius: the Charge of Maleficium', Studi Medievali, 3a serie, 20: 871-89.
'Jerome: His Failures and their Importance', in Gordon Harper and James Veitch (eds), The Heritage of Christian Thought (Wellington: Victoria University Press), pp. 35-58.
Review of Hans-Peter L'Orange and Hjalmar Torp, Il Tempietto Longobardo di Cividale, i and ii (Rome: Bretschneider, 1977), Prudentia 11: 43-5.
1978
Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Review of J.N.D. Kelly, Jerome (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975), Catholic Historical Review: 121-4.
1977
'Augustine and Ambrose: The Loyalty and Single-mindedness of a Disciple', Augustiniana 27: 151-65.
1976
'In Search of Sidonius the Bishop', Historia 25: 356-77.
Review of Robert Browning, The Emperor Julian (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975), Prudentia 8: 133-6.
1975
'Cassian, Contemplation, and the Coenobitic Life', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 26: 113-26.
'Structure and Event in Anthropology and History', New Zealand Journal of History 9: 22-40.
1974
'The Formation of Early Ascetic Communities: Some Further Reflections', Journal of Theological Studies 25: 113-17.
'Rule of St Augustine of Hippo', and 'St Macarius of Egypt', in F.L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 2nd edn (London: Oxford University Press).
Review of Heinrich Bacht, Das Vermächtnis des Ursprungs (Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 1972), Journal of Theological Studies 25: 193-5.
1972
'Blood-relationships among Early Eastern Ascetics', Journal of Theological Studies 23: 135-44.
Review of J.A.S. Evans, Procopius (New York, NY: Twayne, 1972), Prudentia 4: 121-2.
1971
'The Spiritual Authority of the "Monk-bishop": Eastern Elements in Some Western Hagiography of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries', Journal of Theological Studies 22: 380-419.