Peter Brown

Peter Brown's books

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

4.27 avg rating — 2,234 ratings

The World of Late Antiquity

4.10 avg rating — 1,823 ratings

The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity

3.96 avg rating — 861 ratings

The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph & Diversity 200–1000

4.18 avg rating — 684 ratings

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

4.29 avg rating — 657 ratings

The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

4.27 avg rating — 418 ratings

The Making of Late Antiquity

3.74 avg rating — 198 ratings

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

4.06 avg rating — 132 ratings

Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire

4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings

Authority & the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World

3.78 avg rating — 74 ratings