Peter Brown (historian)

Peter Brown
Brown in 2011
Born
Peter Robert Lamont Brown

(1935-07-26) 26 July 1935 (age 89)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationHistorian
AwardsHeineken Prize for History (1994); Kluge Prize (2008); Balzan Prize (2011); Dan David Prize (2015)
Academic background
EducationNew College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
Influences
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Princeton University
Notable worksAugustine 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.[1][2] 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.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b "Peter Brown". History. Princeton University. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  2. ^ Ruby, Shao (20 April 2017). "Peter Brown: Inventor of late antiquity". The Daily Princetonian.
  3. ^ "APS Member History". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 16 March 2024.