Maijastina Kahlos is an historian and a classicist (University of Helsinki). She works currently as a research fellow in the Centre of Excellence ‘Reason and Religious Recognition’, funded by the Academy of Finland. Her research interests broadly include the late Roman history and the Christianization of the Roman Empire. She is the author of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus: Senatorial Life in Between (AIRF 2002), Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures, c. 360-430 (Ashgate 2007) and Forbearance and Compulsion: Rhetoric of Tolerance and Intolerance in Late Antiquity (Duckworth 2009).