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Peter Brown
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Irish historian (1935- )
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Peter Brown is an Irish historian, university teacher and classical scholar, born on 26 July 1935 in Dublin. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, and studied under Arnaldo Momigliano, who was also his doctoral advisor; Kate Cooper was in turn his own doctoral student. His field of work is late antiquity, and he has also taken an interest in medieval studies.
Brown has been employed by Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London. He speaks English, French and Irish. He received the Balzan Prize, the Kluge Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship and the Dan David Prize, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America.
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Robert Lamont Brown , ( 1935-07-26 ) 26 July 1935 (age 90) , Dublin , Ireland
- Occupation
- Historian
- Awards
- Heineken Prize for History (1994); Kluge Prize (2008); Balzan Prize (2011); Dan David Prize (2015)
- Education
- New College, Oxford , All Souls College, Oxford
- Influences
- Henri-Irénée Marrou André Piganiol W. H. C. Frend
- Institutions
- All Souls College, Oxford , Royal Holloway, University of London , University of California, Berkeley , Princeton University
- Notable works
- Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967; 2000); The World of Late Antiquity (1971); The Cult of the Saints (1981); The Body and Society (1988); Through the Eye of a Needle (2012)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Dublin
- Occupation
- classical scholar
- Educated at
- New College
- Languages spoken
- Irish
- Doctoral advisor
- Arnaldo Momigliano
- Student of
- Arnaldo Momigliano
- Field of work
- late antiquity
- Image
- Peter Brown Balzan Prize Ceremony 2011.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1935-07-26
- member of
- Royal Irish Academy
- Commons category
- Peter Brown (historian)
- writing language
- English language
- interested in
- medieval studies
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (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. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, and the relation between religion and society.
Early life and education
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