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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.
Peter Brown, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, is credited with having created the field of study referred to as late antiquity (250-800 A.D.), the period during which Rome fell, the three major monotheistic religions took shape, and Christianity spread across Europe.
“I had to explain myself by becoming a historian of myself,” professor emeritus Peter Brown writes in his new book Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History. Most famous for his biography of philosopher Augustine of Hippo — his first book — Brown went on to rewrite the history of the later Roman Empire and the centuries that followed its ...
Mar 7, 2024 · The historian Peter Brown’s memoir recounts an academic career that has taken him from Oxford to Iran to California, in a nostalgic portrait of twentieth-century academic life that can still offer a primer to young scholars.
In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the “neglected half-millennium” now known as late antiquity was in fact crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East.
Peter Brown, born Dublin, Ireland, 1935. B.A. Oxford, 1956; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1956-1975; Professor of History at Royal Holloway College, University of London, 1975-1978; Professor of Classics and History, University of California at Berkeley, 1978-1986; at present Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University since 1986.
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.
