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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, New Edition
Peter Brown
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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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The Rise of Western Christendom, 2nd Edition
Peter Brown
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(PUBBlackwell)"Persons and events emerge as vivid testimonies to a vibrant age of religious confrontation and accommodation. Brown takes the reader beyond western Europe to Byzantium and Christian Asia. Well-researched and well-written, sure to be savored by general readers and professionals alike,"---Choice. 416 pages, softcover.
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The Cult of the Saints
Peter Brown
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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 religiosity 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.
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The World of Late Antiquity
Peter Brown
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This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world between 150 and 750 AD came to differ from "Classical civilization." These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 665 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, 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 Islam on the Near East. The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history: how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle-Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam.
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Authority and the Sacred
Peter Brown
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The Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. In this fascinating study, Peter Brown, a leading historian of the late antique world, examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian 'thought world' 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, at ground level, of a working compromise between the new faith and tranditional ways of dealing with the supernatural world. His illuminating analysis of religious change as the art of the possible has a wide relevance for other periods and regions. 91 page softcover from Cambridge University Press.
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The Body and Society: Sexual Renunciation in the Early Church
Peter Brown
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This is a 'compelling and human study of the depts and heights of sexual reununciation...Brown's detached yet compassionate sympathy recreates the sublte and complexworld of late-antique sexuality and renunciation with a skill which is uniquely his." (London Review of Books). Hedelves into the writings of the Early Church on the subject of virginity.
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