Peter Brown (historian)
Peter Brown | |
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Brown in 2011 | |
| Born | Peter Robert Lamont Brown 26 July 1935 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Heineken Prize for History (1994); Kluge Prize (2008); Balzan Prize (2011); Dan David Prize (2015) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | New College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford |
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| Academic work | |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford Royal Holloway, University of London University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
| Notable works | Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967; 2000); The World of Late Antiquity (1971); The Cult of the Saints (1981); The Body and Society (1988); Through the Eye of a Needle (2012) |
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 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 culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, and the relation between religion and society.