Peter Brown (historian)

Peter Brown FBA
Brown in 2011
Born	Peter Robert Lamont Brown (1935-07-26) 26 July 1935 (age 89) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Historian
Awards	Heineken Prize for History (1994); Kluge Prize (2008); Balzan Prize (2011); Dan David Prize (2015)
Academic background
Education	New College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford
Influences	Henri-Irénée Marrou André Piganiol W. H. C. Frend
Academic work
Institutions	University of Oxford Princeton University
Notable works	Augustine 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]