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Irish historian (1935- )

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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.

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The «Hellenes» amaze us because, although open to the spiritual disturbances of their age, they turned to ancient methods to find a solution to the anxieties of the present.

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Plotinus he had attempted to deepen his knowledge of the exotic philosophy of the Persians and Indians.

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[...] the model of Charlemagne's renewed Roman empire was not Augustus, but Justinian, the devout Catholic depicted in the mosaics of San Vitale.

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Awards 10

2015Dan David Prize
2011Balzan Prize
2008Kluge Prize
1999Ausonius Award
1994Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
1989Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
1988Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
1982MacArthur Fellows Program
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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