![]() ![]() Peter Brown is a widely recognized master of this pivotal moment of history. "There are few areas of humane scholarship so daunting as the study of late antiquity, that period when Christianity gradually conquered the mind and heart of the foundering Roman empire. "≺veril Cameron, London Times Higher Education Supplement One by one, these studies have illuminated the world of late antiquity (the term he has made his own) by reference to what has preceded it. The Curti lectures complete the sequence of studies of the Christianisation of late antiquity on which Peter Brown has been engaged since the publication of Augustine of Hippo (1967). Peter Brown is a writer of highly emotive as well as extremely clever prose. "A new book by Peter Brown is clearly an event. ![]() History / Classical Studies / Medieval Studies / Religion / History - Ancient and Classical ![]() UW Press - : Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire, Peter Brown ![]()
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