When and where was Peter Brown historian born?
Peter Robert Lamont Brown was born on the 26th of July 1935 in Dublin, Ireland. His family background was Scots-Irish Protestant.
Questions about Peter Brown (historian)
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What early experiences influenced Peter Brown historian's view on non-European cultures?
Brown spent winter and spring each year until 1939 in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan while his father worked as a railway engineer at Khartoum. This exposure to religion and the exotic shaped his view that non-European cultures deserved serious historical attention rather than dismissal.
Which book did Peter Brown historian publish about the holy man figure in 1971?
His most celebrated early paper concerning the figure of the holy man was published in 1971. According to Brown, charismatic Christian ascetics were prominent in the late Roman empire and early Byzantine world as mediators between local communities and the divine.
What awards did Peter Brown historian receive for Through the Eye of a Needle published in 2012?
Through the Eye of a Needle won the R.R. Hawkins Award, the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, and the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History. These honors recognized his examination of how financial giving shaped the making of Christianity in the West from 350 to 550 AD.
When did Peter Brown historian receive honorary doctorates from Harvard University and Yale University?
Brown received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University in 2002 and another from Yale University in 2006. He also became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991.