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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 ...
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 Douglas Brown (born 1925), historian of eighteenth-century British politics Peter Brown (bishop) (born 1947), New Zealand-born Catholic bishop in American Samoa Peter J. Brown (born 1963), U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and Homeland Security Adviser
[13] [14] Peter Brown has written that "Gibbon's work formed the peak of a century of scholarship which had been conducted in the belief that the study of the declining Roman Empire was also the study of the origins of modern Europe". [15] Gibbon was the first to attempt an explanation of causes of a Fall of empire. [15]
A list of Irish historians is presented in this article, from the earliest times up to the present day, by historical periods and in alphabetically order for easier reference.
Peter Douglas Brown (born 7 June 1925) is an historian of eighteenth-century British politics. [1] [2] Brown was born in London on 7 June 1925. [3] He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford. [4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [4]