Volker E Menze's monograph dedicated to the Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria is not only a useful tool in the field of the history of the church,...it can be read both by a theologian, a philosopher, a scholar specialized in areas like geopolitics, political theology, or other categories of literature.
Volker L. Menze is Associate Professor for Late Antique History at Central European University, particularly working on ecclesiastical history 300-700 CE. His recent publications include an edited volume on Syriac hagiography and articles on church councils, book burnings, bribery, episcopal nepotism, and alternative ecclesiologies in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.