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Jul 26, 1935 — —· 90 yrs

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Peter Robert Lamont Brown

Also known as: Peter Lamont Brown, Peter Brown

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Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University. Author of Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine.

Dublin, Ireland
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To ensure that we see the history of western Europe in its true perspective, we should begin our account in a city far away from modern Europe.

— from The rise of Western Christendom, 1995

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The rise of Western Christendom

1995

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"This book offers a history of the first thousand years of Christianity. Ranging across the Christian world from China to Iceland, the narrative illustrates the diversity of Christian beliefs and practices. It also places the rise of Christianity in the context of other religious traditions, especially Islam. The author draws penetrating portraits of individuals and communities, from St. Patrick and the Irish Church to the Christian communities of Armenia and Mesopotamia." "For the second edition, the book has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded. It includes two new chapters, on monasticism and Irish Christianity. The author has also added an extensive introduction in which he reflects on the scholarly traditions that have influenced his work and explains his current thinking about the book's themes. The revised edition contains new maps, a substantial bibliography, and a number of chronological tables to guide readers."--BOOK JACKET.

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The world of late antiquity, AD 150-750

1971

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"This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 AD, came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian Empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogenous Mediterranean world of c. 200 AD became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium and Islam. We still live with the results of these contrasts." -- Provided by publisher

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Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

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