Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton. His most recent book is Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD, published in September. (December 2012)
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The Risks of Being Christian
December 20, 2012
Sin: The Early History of an Idea
by Paula Fredriksen
Heaven’s Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity
by Isabel Moreira
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The Great Transition
May 10, 2012
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th–9th Century)
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 14–July 8, 2012
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A Tale of Two Bishops and a Brilliant Saint
March 8, 2012
Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics between Desert and Empire
by J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz
Ambrose of Milan: Political Letters and Speeches
translated from the Latin with an introduction and notes by J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz, with the assistance of Carole Hill
Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism
by Garry Wills
Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography
by Garry Wills
Once Out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body
by Andrea Nightingale
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On the Magic Carpet of the Met
December 8, 2011
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
edited by Maryam D. Ekhtiar, Priscilla P. Soucek, Sheila R. Canby, and Navina Najat Haidar
Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, October 21, 2011–January 29, 2012
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The Tenacity of Paganism
June 9, 2011
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Paganism: What We Owe the Christians
April 7, 2011
The Last Pagans of Rome
by Alan Cameron
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A Surprise from Saint Augustine
June 11, 2009
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
by Paula Fredriksen
Palestine in Late Antiquity
by Hagith Sivan
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The Voice of the Stones
April 17, 2008
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam
by G.W. Bowersock
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The Private Art of Early Christians
March 20, 2008
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 -
A New Augustine
June 24, 1999
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
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‘A More Glorious House’
May 29, 1997
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
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Brave Old World
March 12, 1987
Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
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Understanding Islam
February 22, 1979
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
HistoryRemembered, Recovered, Invented by Bernard Lewis
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by Patricia Crone, by Michael Cook
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Violence in Olympia
November 25, 1976
The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years
by M. I. Finley, by H. W. Pleket
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In Gibbon’s Shade
April 15, 1976
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
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Artifices of Eternity
February 20, 1975
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
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The View from the Precipice
October 3, 1974
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