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Brown, Peter Robert Lamont was born in 1935 in Dublin, Ireland.
( In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practi...)
In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation--continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity--that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the early Christians and their strange, disturbing preoccupations. He follows in detail the reflection and controversy these notions generated among Christian writers. Among the topics covered are marriage and sexuality in the Roman world, Judaism and the early church, Origen and the tradition of spiritual guidance, sexuality in the desert fathers and Augustine and sexuality. The Body and Society is a significant study on sexuality and the family in the ancient world by a renowned scholar. Besides being of great interest to readers in ancient history and early church history, and to classicists and medievalists, it will engage readers concerned with women's studies and the history of sexuality.
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(This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritati...)
This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. * Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe * Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' * Includes a fully updated bibliography and index
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(This book offers a vivid, compelling history of the first...)
This book offers a vivid, compelling history of the first thousand years of Christianity. For the second edition, the book has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded. It includes two new chapters, as well as an extensive preface in which the author reflects on the scholarly traditions which have influenced his work and explains his current thinking about the book's themes. New edition of popular account of the first 1000 years of Christianity. Thoroughly rewritten, with extensive new preface of author's current thinking. Includes new maps, substantial bibliography, and numerous chronological tables.
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(Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society ...)
Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional modern images of the period.
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(The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root ...)
The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive and the compromises that made the emergence of the Christian conception of existence possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church. Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural worlds.
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( In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how t...)
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly connection, and their veneration is a fascinating window into the cultural mood of a region in transition. Brown challenges the long-held two-tier” idea of religion that separated the religious practices of the sophisticated elites from those of the superstitious masses, instead arguing that the cult of the saints crossed boundaries and played a dynamic part in both the Christian faith and the larger world of late antiquity. He shows how men and women living in harsh and sometimes barbaric times relied upon the holy dead to obtain justice, forgiveness, and power, and how a single sainted hair could inspire great thinkers and great artists. An essential text by one of the foremost scholars of European history, this expanded edition includes a new preface from Brown, which presents new ideas based on subsequent scholarship.
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(E Demiourgia tes Ysteres Archaiotetas (The Making of Late...)
E Demiourgia tes Ysteres Archaiotetas (The Making of Late Antiquity) (Greek Edition) by Peter Brown. Translation by Theodosis Nikolaidis. Language editing by Anna Peristeries. 2001 paperback published by Bibliopoleion tes Estias. Text in Greek.
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(La Formazione dell'Europa Cristiana: Universalismo e Dive...)
La Formazione dell'Europa Cristiana: Universalismo e Diversita, 200-1000 D.C. (The Rise of Western Christendom) (Fare l'Europa) (Italian Edition) by Peter Brown (series edited by Jacques Le Goff). Translation by Michele Sampaolo. 1995 hardcover published by Editori Laterza. Text in Italian.
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( This classic biography was first published thirty years...)
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.
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( Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on M...)
Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops as they wrested influence from philosophers, who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society. In the new “Christian empire,” the ancient bonds of citizen to citizen and of each city to its benefactors were replaced by a common Christianity and common loyalty to a distant, Christian autocrat. This transformation of the Roman empire from an ancient to a medieval society, he argues, is among the most far-reaching consequences of the rise of Christianity.
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(Il Corpo e la Societa: Uomini, Donne e Astinenza Sessuale...)
Il Corpo e la Societa: Uomini, Donne e Astinenza Sessuale nei Primi Secoli Cristiani (The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity) (Italian Edition) by Peter Brown. Translation by Igor Legati. 1992 hardcover published by Giulio Einaudi Editore. Text in Italian.
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( This classic biography was first published thirty years...)
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
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(Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the c...)
Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected with the sacred bodies of the saints. He shows how men and women living in harsh and sometimes barbaric times relied upon the merciful intercession of the holy dead to obtain justice, forgiveness, and to find new ways to accept their fellows. Challenging the common treatment of the cult as an outbreak of superstition among the lower classes, Brown demonstrates how this form of religiousity engaged the finest minds of the Church and elicited from members of the educated upper classes some of their most splendid achievements in poetry, literature, and the patronage of the arts. Brown has an international reputation for his fine style, a style he here turns on to illuminate the cult of the saints. Christianity was born without such a cult; it took rise and that rise needs chronicling. Brown has a gift for the memorable phrase and sees what the passersby have often overlooked. An eye-opener on an important but neglected phase of Western development.--The Christian Century Brilliantly original and highly sophisticated . . . . The Cult of the Saints is based on great learning in several disciplines, and the story is told with an exceptional appreciation for the broad social context. Students of many aspects of medieval culture, especially popular religion, will want to consult this work.--Bennett D. Hill, Library Journal
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( This classic biography was first published forty-five ...)
This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
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(Adult Worship (The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Funct...)
Adult Worship (The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity) (Korean Edition) by Peter Brown (translated by Jeonggimun). 2002 hardcover published by Saemulgyul Publishing House, Seoul.
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(This work is a history of the people, struggles, defeats ...)
This work is a history of the people, struggles, defeats and victories, ideas and actions that together comprise the history of the first 1000 years of Christianity. It ranges across the whole of Asia Minor, North Africa and Europe. It both captures the immediacy of decisive moments and explains the nature of the processes by which the end of the period had established Christianity as the single greatest factor in political power and cultural life throughout the region. By establishing itself within the framework of two empires, the Roman and the Persian Sassanidic, Christendom inherited their double universality from its beginnings. The book traces the history of the distinctly Eastern Christendoms centred first in Byzantium and later spreading to the Balkans and to Russia, and the Western Christendoms focused on Rome but with powerfully independent centres in France, Germany, England and Ireland. It explores the origins of monastic life in the Coptic Church of Egypt, and charts its gradual spread throughout the West. The book recreates the vibrancy of Christian cultures and their claims to be the universal "true" Christianity, and shows how the rise of centralized forms of Christianity were associated with the renewed imperial systems of Byzantium and in the Carolingiam Empire. The book describes, too, the rise of Islam and its effect on the Christianity, first in the Middle East and then in the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe, and examines the origins of the great contests between the two faiths. Finally the author shows how, especially in North and Eastern Europe, the memories of a pagan past became part of the culture of what was now an officially Christian world: a distinctive relation between past and present, profane and sacred had emerged in Western Christendom by 1000 AD, and a civilization which was by then irrevocably different from the Christendoms of the East. The book moves constantly from the religious and theological to the social and secular. It combines evocations of people and places within a wide perspective of space and time, and structures the whole in a coherent narrative.
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(In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the worl...)
In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of "the poor" as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church claimed a special responsibility. It is the story of how a society came to see itself as responsible for the care of a particular class of people -- a class that had not previously been cared for -- and of who benefited from that shift in interests. In his characteristically elegant and lucid prose, Brown seeks to recover the pre-Christian status of poor people, the actual nature of the relations between the Christian church and the poor, and the true motivations -- sometimes sincere, sometimes self-serving -- behind Christian rhetoric of love for the poor. He draws not only on the standard Greek and Latin sources for the later Roman Empire, but also on Jewish sources to document the interactions between Middle Eastern provincial societies and classical Roman traditions. Brown gracefully illuminates a crucial transition from classical to Christian culture: the emergence of a new understanding of what society -- and the Church -- owes to the poor that continues to resonate.
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(This is a history of the people, struggles, defeats and v...)
This is a history of the people, struggles, defeats and victories, ideas and actions that together comprise the history of the first 1000 years of Christianity. It ranges across much of Asia, North Africa and Europe. It both captures the immediacy of decisive moments and explains how by the end of the period Christianity had become the dominant factor in political power and cultural life throughout the region.By establishing itself within the framework of two empires, the Roman and the Persian Sasanian, Christendom inherited from its beginnings their double universalism. The author traces the history of the distinctly Eastern Christendoms, centred first in Byzantium and later spreading to the Balkans and to Russia, and of Western Christendom focused on Rome but with powerfully independent centres in France, Germany, England and Ireland. He recreates the vibrancy of Christian cultures and their claims to be the universal "true" Christianity, and shows how the rise of centralized forms of Christianity were associated with the renewed imperial systems of Byzantium and the Carolingian Empire. Peter Brown examines the impact of other religious traditions on the development of Christianity. He describes reactions to the explosive rise of Islam, and explains how, especially in North and Eastern Europe, the memories of a pagan past became part of the culture of what was now an officially Christian world. By AD 1000, a distinctive relation between past and present, between profane and sacred, had emerged in Western Christendom, and a civilization that was by then irrevocably different from the Christendoms of the East.
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(Kodai Makki no Keisei (The Making of Late Antiquity) (Jap...)
Kodai Makki no Keisei (The Making of Late Antiquity) (Japanese Edition) by Peter Brown (translation by Hiroaki Adachi). 2006 hardcover published by Keio Gijuku Daigaku Shuppankai. Text in Japanese.
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( In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practi...)
In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation--continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity--that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the early Christians and their strange, disturbing preoccupations. He follows in detail the reflection and controversy these notions generated among Christian writers. Among the topics covered are marriage and sexuality in the Roman world, Judaism and the early church, Origen and the tradition of spiritual guidance, sexuality in the desert fathers and Augustine and sexuality. The Body and Society is a significant study on sexuality and the family in the ancient world by a renowned scholar. Besides being of great interest to readers in ancient history and early church history, and to classicists and medievalists, it will engage readers concerned with women's studies and the history of sexuality.
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( First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Soc...)
First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers. The Body and Society questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped relationships between men and women, Roman aristocracy and slaves, and the married and the celibate. Brown discusses Tertullian, Valentinus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, the Desert Fathers, Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine, among others, and considers asceticism and society in the Eastern Empire, martyrdom and prophecy, gnostic spiritual guidance, promiscuity among the men and women of the church, monks and marriage in Egypt, the ascetic life of women in fourth-century Jerusalem, and the body and society in the early Middle Ages. In his new introduction, Brown reflects on his work's reception in the scholarly community.
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Brown, Peter Robert Lamont was born in 1935 in Dublin, Ireland.
Bachelor in History, Oxford University, England, 1956. Degree (honorary), University Chicago, 1978. Degree (honorary), Trinity College, Dublin, 1990.
Degree (honorary), Wesleyan University, 1993. Degree (honorary), Columbia University, 2001. Degree (honorary), Harvard University, 2002.
Teaching fellow All Souls College, Oxford University. Professor University London, University California, Berkeley. Philip & Beulah Rollins professor history Princeton University, New Jersey, since 1986.
(In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the worl...)
( Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on M...)
( In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practi...)
( In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practi...)
(Il Corpo e la Societa: Uomini, Donne e Astinenza Sessuale...)
(This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritati...)
( In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how t...)
( First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Soc...)
(This work is a history of the people, struggles, defeats ...)
( This classic biography was first published forty-five ...)
(This is a history of the people, struggles, defeats and v...)
( This classic biography was first published thirty years...)
( This classic biography was first published thirty years...)
(Adult Worship (The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Funct...)
(Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the c...)
(Kodai Makki no Keisei (The Making of Late Antiquity) (Jap...)
(Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society ...)
(E Demiourgia tes Ysteres Archaiotetas (The Making of Late...)
(This book offers a vivid, compelling history of the first...)
(La Formazione dell'Europa Cristiana: Universalismo e Dive...)
(The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root ...)
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