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Peter Brown

Peter Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton. His books include Augustine of Hippo, Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity, and Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History, which was published last year. (February 2024)

No Barbarians Necessary

No Barbarians Necessary

The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy

by Michael Kulikowski

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

by Walter Scheidel

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

by Janet L. Nelson

September 24, 2020 issue

Cities That Touched Heaven

Cities That Touched Heaven

The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 18–June 23, 2019

The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity Through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE

by Matthew P. Canepa

The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War Against Christianity

by H.C. Teitler

June 6, 2019 issue

A World Winking with Messages

A World Winking with Messages

The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology

edited by Paul Corby Finney

Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

by Nadine Schibille

December 20, 2018 issue

At the Center of a Roiling World

At the Center of a Roiling World

The Crucible of Islam

by G.W. Bowersock

The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia

by Judith S. McKenzie and Francis Watson

The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman

May 11, 2017 issue

Recapturing Jerusalem at the Met

Recapturing Jerusalem at the Met

Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, September 26, 2016–January 8, 2017

December 8, 2016 issue

Splendors of the Seljuqs in New York

Splendors of the Seljuqs in New York

Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 27–July 24, 2016

August 18, 2016 issue

The Glow of Byzantium

The Glow of Byzantium

Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond

edited by Cynthia Hahn and Holger A. Klein

Allegories of the Iliad

by John Tzetzes, translated from the Greek by Adam J. Goldwyn and Dimitra Kokkini

The Lost World of Byzantium

by Jonathan Harris

Imagining the Byzantine Past: The Perception of History in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses

by Elena N. Boeck

July 14, 2016 issue

The Purple Stone of Emperors

The Purple Stone of Emperors

Porphyry: Red Imperial Porphyry: Power and Religion

by Dario Del Bufalo, translated from the Italian by David Graham and Lara Cox

Porphyre: La Pierre Pourpre des Ptolémées à Bonaparte [Porphyry: The Purple Stone from the Ptolemies to Bonaparte]

by Philippe Malgouyres and Clément Blanc-Riehl

Byzantine Matters

by Averil Cameron

Dialoguing in Late Antiquity

by Averil Cameron

December 18, 2014 issue

The Risks of Being Christian

The Risks of Being Christian

Sin: The Early History of an Idea

by Paula Fredriksen

Heaven’s Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity

by Isabel Moreira

December 20, 2012 issue

The Great Transition

The Great Transition

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

May 10, 2012 issue

A Tale of Two Bishops and a Brilliant Saint

A Tale of Two Bishops and a Brilliant Saint

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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