Peter Brown
Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton. The twentieth-anniversary edition of his book The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity was published last year. (June 2009)
From the Review
June 11, 2009: A Surprise from Saint Augustine
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism by Paula Fredriksen
Palestine in Late Antiquity by Hagith Sivan
April 17, 2008: The Voice of the Stones
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam by G.W. Bowersock
March 20, 2008: The Private Art of Early Christians
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art an exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, November 18, 2007–March 30, 2008.
Catalog of the exhibition by Jeffrey Spier, with contributions by Mary Charles-Murray, Johannes G. Deckers, Steven Fine, Robin M. Jensen, and Herbert L. Kessler
April 12, 2001: Charmed Lives
Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
Antioch: The Lost Ancient City, catalog of the exhibition edited by Christine Kondoleon
June 24, 1999: A New Augustine
Saint Augustine by Garry Wills
The Works of Saint Augustine III/11: Newly Discovered Sermons translated by Edmund Hill
Saint Augustine: Letters VI (1*-29*) translated by Robert B Eno
May 29, 1997: 'A More Glorious House'
The Glory of Byzantium exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 11-July 6, 1997
The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, AD 843-1261 catalog of the exhibition edited by Helen C. Evans, by William D. Wixom
March 12, 1987: Brave Old World
Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
February 22, 1979: Understanding Islam
The Miraculous Journey of Mahomet: Mirâj Nâmeh introduction and commentaries by Marie-Rose Séguy
La géographie humaine du monde musulman jusqu'au milieu du 11e siècle by André Miquel
Islam and the Arab World edited by Bernard Lewis
Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Vol. I: Politics and War edited and translated by Bernard Lewis
Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Vol. II: Religion and Society edited and translated by Bernard Lewis
The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld: The Banû Sâsân in Arabic Society and Literature by C.E. Bosworth
The Classical Heritage in Islam by Franz Rosenthal, translated by Emile Marmorstein, by Jenny Marmorstein
The Camel and the Wheel by Richard W. Bulliet
The Matter of Araby in Medieval England by Dorothee Metlitzki
History—Remembered, Recovered, Invented by Bernard Lewis
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by Patricia Crone, by Michael Cook
November 25, 1976: Violence in Olympia
The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years by M. I. Finley, by H. W. Pleket
April 15, 1976: In Gibbon's Shade
Roman Social Relations, 50 BC to AD 284 by Ramsay MacMullen
Christianity in the Roman World by R.A. Markus
Symbols of Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition by Robert Murray
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A Reappraisal by Michael Grant
February 20, 1975: Artifices of Eternity
The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700): Vol. 2, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine by Jaroslav Pelikan
Venezia e Bizanzio by Sergio Bettini and others
Icons and their History by David Talbot Rice, by Tamara Talbot Rice
Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery by Sirarpie Der Nersessian
The Celtic Churches: A History, AD 200 to 1200 by John T. McNeill
Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture, 1200-1600 by John Hunt
The Book of Kells with a study of the manuscript by Françoise Henry
October 3, 1974: The View from the Precipice
The Origins of Christian Art by Michael Gough
Handbook of the Byzantine Collection Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312-1453 AD, Sources and Documents by Cyril Mango
The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy by Thomas F. Mathews
The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Church and Fortress of Justinian by George H. Forsyth, by Kurt Weitzmann
Treasures of Ireland: Irish Pagan and Early Christian Art by A.T. Lucas
Books by Peter Brown
Late Antiquity (1998)
The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, Ad 200-1000 (1996)
Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (1995)
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (1992)
The World of Late Antiquity, Ad 150-750 (1989)
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (1988)
Augustine and Sexuality: Protocol of the Forty Sixth Colloquy, 22 May 983 (1983)
Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (1982)
The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (1981)
The Making of Late Antiquity (1978)
Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustin (1972)
The World of Late Antiquity, Ad 150-75 (1971)
The World of Late Antiquity: From Marcus Aurelius to Muhamma (1971)
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967)