Peter Brown (historian)
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Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton, where he is currently the Philip and Beluah Rollins Professor of History. In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow. He has been instrumental in popularlizing the historical period of Late Antiquity.
Selected Bibliography
- Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967/2000) - ISBN 0520227573
- The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 (1971/1989) - ISBN 0393958035
- The Making of Late Antiquity (1978) - ISBN 0674543211
- The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (1981) - ISBN 0226076229
- The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (1988) - ISBN 0231061013
- Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman world (1995) - ISBN 0521499046
External link
- Stanford site (http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/brown/) about Peter Brown.