Konzilien und Synoden im spätantiken Gallien von 314 bis 696 nach Christi Geburt. Teil 1: Chronologische Darstellung; Teil 2: Zusammenschau wichtiger Themenkreise (review)

Throughout, the material is presented accurately, but it is very much a summary of evidence; novel interpretation is entirely absent, as are any interpretative grey areas, and the author knows nothing of Anglophone scholarship, which might have helped with the disputed chronologies of some councils and would certainly have given nuance to the summary of controversies over heresy and monastic discipline. The second volume, slightly shorter, rehearses the same information contained in the first volume, but does so according to long, thematic sections on bishops, priests, monks and nuns, the laity, slaves, Jews, heretics, and other social questions, and the liturgy and sacraments.