Professor Nicholas Baker-Brian

Articles

• Baker-Brian, N. 2016. “Putrid boils and sores, and burning wounds in the body”: the valorization of health and illness in late antique Manichaeism: Introduction: health and the Manichaean body. Harvard Theological Review 109(3), pp. 422-446. (10.1017/S001781601600016X)
• Baker-Brian, N. 2007. Modern Augustinian biographies: Revisions and counter-memories. Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 11(1), pp. 151-167. (10.1515/ZAC.2007.009)
• Baker-Brian, N. 2006. Biblical traditions and their transformation in fourth century Manichaeism. Augustiniana 56(1-2), pp. 63-80.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2003. '.. quaedam disputationes Adimanti' (Retr. I. xxii. 1): Reading the Manichaean Biblical Discordance in Augustine's Contra Adimantum. Augustinian Studies 34(2), pp. 175-196. (10.5840/augstudies200334211)

Book sections

• Baker-Brian, N. 2025. Restoration not revolution: Prophecy and diatribe in Constantine I's Oration to the Saints. In: Quiroga Puertas, A. and Fuentes Gonzalez, P. eds. Diatribe Reconsidered: Pedagogical Strategies in Greco-Roman Literature between Rhetoric and Philosophy. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 1-17.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2024. Writing truth and secrets: Authorship and the legitimising role of apocalyptic in Manichaeism. In: Bonar, C. and Lidenlaub, J. D. eds. Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 105-125.
• Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. 2021. Introduction. In: Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. eds. Studia Patristica CII. Papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference 5-7 September 2018. Studia Patristica Vol. 102. Peeters
• Baker-Brian, N. 2020. Revisiting Proba's Confession: The Proem of the Vergilian Cento and the Reign of Julian the Apostate. In: Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. eds. Studia Patristica CII. Papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018. Peeters
• Baker-Brian, N. 2020. ‘Very great are your words’. In: Flower, R. and Ludlow, M. eds. Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, pp. 114-127., (10.1093/oso/9780198813194.003.0008)
• Baker-Brian, N. J. and Tougher, S. 2020. Introduction: In the shadows of Constantine and Julian: The sons of Constantine, AD 337-361. In: Baker-Brian, N. J. and Tougher, S. eds. The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361: In the Shadows of Constantine and Julian. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, (10.1007/978-3-030-39898-9)
• Baker-Brian, N. J. 2020. 'I have taken pains to get copies of them': Epistolary relations between the sons of Constantine and the Christian Church. In: Baker-Brian, N. J. and Tougher, S. eds. The Sons of Constantine, AD337-361. In the Shadows of Constantine and Julian. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 347-388.
• Baker-Brian, N. J. 2018. A new religion? The emergence of Manichaeism in Late Antiquity. In: Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. J. eds. A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley, pp. 319-343., (10.1002/9781118968130.ch15)
• Baker-Brian, N. 2018. Introduction. In: Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. eds. A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1-8.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2017. Mass and elite in Late Antique religion: the case of Manichaeism. In: Evans, R. ed. Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds: From Sparta to Late Antiquity. London: Routledge, pp. 165-184.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2017. Manicheism. In: Toom, T. ed. Augustine in Context. Cambridge University Press, pp. 137-144.
• Baker-Brian, N. and Galynina, I. 2013. Contra Faustum. In: Pollmann, K. and Otten, W. eds. The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 46-53.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2013. Manichaeism. In: Pollmann, K. and Otten, W. eds. The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 871-877.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2013. Women in Augustine's anti-Manichaean writings: Rumour, rhetoric, and ritual. In: Vinzent, M. ed. Studia Patristica LXX: Papers presented at the sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011: Volume 18: St Augustine and his Opponents. Studia Patristica Vol. 70. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 499-520.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2013. Between testimony and rumour: Strategies of invective in Augustine's 'De moribus manichaeorum'. In: Quiroga Puertas, A. J. ed. The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exegesis. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 31-53.
• Tougher, S. F. 2012. Reading between the lines: Julian's first panegyric on Constantius II. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian 'the Apostate'. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. 19-34.
• Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. 2012. Introduction. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. xiii-xxi.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2012. The politics of virtue in Julian's Misopogon. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 263-280.

Books

• Baker-Brian, N. 2022. The reign of Constantius II. Routledge.
• Baker-Brian, N. J. and Lossl, J. eds. 2021. Studia Patristica CII. Including papers presented at the Seventh British Patristics Conference, Cardiff, 5-7 September 2018. Peeters.
• Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. eds. 2020. The sons of Constantine, AD 337-361: in the shadows of Constantine and Julian. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-030-39898-9)
• Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. J. eds. 2018. A companion to religion in Late Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester: Wiley. (10.1002/9781118968130)
• Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. 2012. Emperor and author: The writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2011. Manichaeism: An ancient faith rediscovered. London: T & T Clark International.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2009. Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire: A study of Augustine's 'Contra Adimantum'. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.

• Baker-Brian, N. 2013. Women in Augustine's anti-Manichaean writings: Rumour, rhetoric, and ritual. In: Vinzent, M. ed. Studia Patristica LXX: Papers presented at the sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011: Volume 18: St Augustine and his Opponents. Studia Patristica Vol. 70. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 499-520.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2013. Between testimony and rumour: Strategies of invective in Augustine's 'De moribus manichaeorum'. In: Quiroga Puertas, A. J. ed. The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exegesis. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 31-53.
• Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. 2012. Emperor and author: The writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
• Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. 2012. Introduction. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. xiii-xxi.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2012. The politics of virtue in Julian's Misopogon. In: Baker-Brian, N. and Tougher, S. F. eds. Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 263-280.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2011. Manichaeism: An ancient faith rediscovered. London: T & T Clark International.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2009. Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire: A study of Augustine's 'Contra Adimantum'. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.
• Baker-Brian, N. 2007. Modern Augustinian biographies: Revisions and counter-memories. Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 11(1), pp. 151-167. (10.1515/ZAC.2007.009)
• Baker-Brian, N. 2006. Biblical traditions and their transformation in fourth century Manichaeism. Augustiniana 56(1-2), pp. 63-80.