Research outputs
Selected research outputs
- Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity (Book - 2026)
2026
Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity
Whelan, R. (2026). Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/
NATHAN ISRAEL SMOLIN, Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century A.D. (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. ix + 378 pages. <scp>isbn</scp> 9780197689547 (hbk), 9780197689554 electronic book. £78.00.
Whelan, R. (2026). NATHAN ISRAEL SMOLIN, Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century A.D. (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. ix + 378 pages. <scp>isbn</scp> 9780197689547 (hbk), 9780197689554 electronic book. £78.00.. Journal of Roman Studies, 1-2. doi:10.1017/s007543582510110x
2025
Arianism and other Christological disputes
Whelan, R. (2025). Arianism and other Christological disputes. In R. Flower (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Count Irenaeus and the Nestorian Controversy
WHELAN, R. (2025). Count Irenaeus and the Nestorian Controversy. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 76(2), 245-263. doi:10.1017/s0022046924001544
2023
Modestus at Edessa. Imperial officials in the ecclesiastical histories of Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret
Whelan, R. (2023). Modestus at Edessa. Imperial officials in the ecclesiastical histories of Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret. Millennium, 20(1), 149-192. doi:10.1515/mill-2023-0009
2022
Journal of Late Antiquity
Whelan, R., McEvoy, M., & Flower, R. (Eds.) (2022). Journal of Late Antiquity (Vol. 15). Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49154
Introduction
Flower, R., McEvoy, M., & Whelan, R. (2022). Introduction. Journal of Late Antiquity, 15(2), 326-332. doi:10.1353/jla.2022.0019
2021
Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Whelan, R. (2021). Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa. Gender & History. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12528
After Augustine, after Markus: the problem of the secular at the end of antiquity
Whelan, R. (2021). After Augustine, after Markus: the problem of the secular at the end of antiquity. Early Medieval Europe, 29(1), 12-35. doi:10.1111/emed.12447
2019
Ethnicity, Christianity, and Groups: Homoian Christians in Ostrogothic Italy and Visigothic Spain
Whelan, R. (2019). Ethnicity, Christianity, and Groups: Homoian Christians in Ostrogothic Italy and Visigothic Spain. In Y. Fox, & E. Buchberger (Eds.), Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400-800 (pp. 167-198). Turnhout: Brepols.
2018
Mirrors for bureaucrats: expectations of Christian officials in the Theodosian Empire
Whelan, R. E. (2018). Mirrors for bureaucrats: expectations of Christian officials in the Theodosian Empire. Journal of Roman Studies, 108, 74-98. doi:10.1017/S0075435818000254
An ascetic state? Fashioning Christian political service across the early sixth-century Mediterranean
Whelan, R. E. (2018). An ascetic state? Fashioning Christian political service across the early sixth-century Mediterranean. Studies in Late Antiquity, 2(3), 385-418. doi:10.1525/sla.2018.2.3.385
Being Christian in Vandal Africa The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West
Whelan, R. (2017). Being Christian in Vandal Africa The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West. Univ of California Press. Retrieved from https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295957/being-christian-in-vandal-africa
2017
Surrogate fathers: imaginary dialogue and patristic culture in late antiquity
Whelan, R. E. (2017). Surrogate fathers: imaginary dialogue and patristic culture in late antiquity. Early Medieval Europe, 25(1), 19-37. doi:10.1111/emed.12184
2016
Arianism in Africa
Whelan, R. (2016). Arianism in Africa. In Arianism Roman Heresy and Barbarian Creed (pp. 239-255). doi:10.4324/9781315567891-14
2014
Arianism in Africa
Whelan, R. E. (2014). Arianism in Africa. In G. Berndt, & R. Steinacher (Eds.), Arianism: Roman Heresy and Barbarian Creed (pp. 239-256). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
African Controversy: The Inheritance of the Donatist Schism in Vandal Africa
WHELAN, R. (2014). African Controversy: The Inheritance of the Donatist Schism in Vandal Africa. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 65(3), 504-521. doi:10.1017/S0022046914000645