Timothy D. Barnes combines the techniques of critical hagiography and modern historical research to reach important and original results for the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire. "Reading any work by Timothy Barnes is an exhilarating experience. His formidable command of both sources and bibliography never clouds his lucid prose or incisive arguments. He seems to inhabit a world of infinite clarity and irrefutable certainty."Glen W. Bowersock in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62 (2011), pp. 565-567 " ...] Barnes has written an indispensable, critical companion to early Christian...