Wolf Liebeschuetz is one of the most distinguished creative and bestliked of contemporary Ancient Historians. In his fiftyyear career of teaching and publication Wolf Germanborn and Britisheducated has informed generations of scholars collaborating instructing disputing and commenting on research.In this volume coinciding with his eightieth birthday twenty historians and archaeologists who have known Wolf as friends colleagues and pupils acknowledge and celebrate his influence by presenting papers on topics related to his four monographs Antioch City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman Empire 1972 Continuity and Change in Roman Religion 1980 Barbarians and Bishops 1990 and The Decline and Fall of the Roman City 2001. Four core sections cover Law and Religion Duncan Cloud Robert Markus Karl Leo Noethlichs John North Benet Salway Antioch and the East Hugh Elton Geoffrey Greatrex Doug Lee Barbarians and Bishops Jonathan Barlow John Drinkwater Peter Heather Neil McLynn The City Simon Corcoran Nick Henck Luke Lavan Andrew Poulter Charlotte Rouech.