Peter Robert Lamont Brown FBA (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is credited with having brought …

May 23, 2013 · The Best Books to Read on Late Antiquity — a list by Peter Brown. His intellectual memoir, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History was published in June 2023.

The Best Books to Read on Late Antiquity — a list by Peter Brown. His intellectual memoir, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History was published in June 2023.

Mar 17, 1989 · The author, a historian at Princeton, presents a brief (fewer than 200 pages of text) and well-written survey of Late Antiquity -- the four hundred year period from the shift from the …

Jun 6, 2023 · "The most exciting book that I have read this century is Journeys of the Mind (Princeton), an intellectual memoir by the historian of late antiquity Peter Brown. Immaculately …

Mar 30, 2014 · Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by …

Books 3. Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Peter Brown. A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and …

"A fascinating book by the great historian of late antiquity, Peter Brown, on the development of Christianity in Rome. . . . Through the Eye of a Needle is a serious work of scholarship and an …

Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity, and is often regarded as the inventor of said field. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious …