“It provides a fresh account of the ways Gallo-Roman Christian poets composed verse amid barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself” (from the back cover of the book). Among these poets: Paulinus of Nola, Paulinus of Pella, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Avitus of Vienne, with an Appendix on Ennodius