# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:38:16.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-brown"
name: "Peter Brown"
slug: "peter-brown"
description: "Peter Robert Lamont Brown 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."
tagline: "Irish historian (1935- )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Brown_Balzan_Prize_Ceremony_2011.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump