Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

Explores the slow shift from one form of public community to another - from the ancient city to the Christian Church. He explains how in the four centuries between Marcus Aurelius (161-180) and Justinian (527-565), the Mediterranean world passed through a series of profound transmutations.

[Late Antiquity] is a scintillating essayBrown brilliantly arranges his intuitions around the central theme of the 'public' classical city being replaced by the internalized Christian city of another, non-secular world. That becomes the central pattern of explanation for changes in attitude to sexuality, and for the development of unprecedented respect for sexual purity as an attribute of nuns, monks and bishops. -- Thomas Wiedemann * Jact Review *

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.

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ISBN 13	9780674511705
ISBN 10	0674511700
Title	Late Antiquity
Author	Peter Brown
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year published	1998-04-15
Number of pages	96
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