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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.
The World of Late Antiquity is a 1971 book [1] by historian Peter Brown. The book was one of the first in the anglophone world to consider late antiquity as a distinct historical era. [ 2 ] In 2014, the Folio Society republished an illustrated edition, with an introduction by historian Christopher Kelly . [ 3 ]
The term Spätantike, literally "late antiquity", has been used by German-speaking historians since its popularization by Alois Riegl in the early 20th century. [4] It was given currency in English partly by the writings of Peter Brown, whose survey The World of Late Antiquity (1971) revised the Gibbon view of a stale and ossified Classical culture, in favour of a vibrant time of renewals and ...
Historians of Late Antiquity, a field pioneered by Peter Brown, have turned away from the idea that the Roman Empire fell at all – refocusing instead on Pirenne's thesis. They see a transformation occurring over centuries, with the roots of Medieval culture contained in Roman culture and focus on the continuities between the classical and ...
Late Antiquity is a historiographical term for the historical period from c. 200 AD to c. 700 AD, which marks the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Precise boundaries for the period are a matter of debate, but historian Peter Brown proposed a period between the 2nd and 8th
Peter Hume Brown, FBA (17 December 1849 – 1 December 1918) was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline. In addition to teaching and writing, he spent 16 years as editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland , and served as Historiographer ...
Peter Brown, who played Deputy Johnny McKay on 1960s TV Western "Lawman," died March 21 in Phoenix, Arizona.He was 80. Brown played McKay on ABC's "Lawman" during the entire 1958-62 run of the ...
At Princeton, she received a dual training in the history of late antiquity with Peter Brown, and in gnosticism with Elaine Pagels. At Princeton, she also participated in the Program in the Ancient World, working to develop skills in history, classics, religion, and art and archaeology.