Michael MaasMichael Maas is the William Gaines Twyman Professor of History at Rice University, Houston, where he also directs the Program in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. A former Director in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, he has published widely inlate antique history, including Exegesis and Empire in the Early Byzantine Mediterranean. Junillus Africanus and the Instituta  Regularia Divinae Legis (2003) and The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila (Cambridge, 2014). Read More Read Less