When was the historian Peter Brown born?
Peter Brown was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the 26th of July 1935.
Questions about Peter Brown (historian)
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What field is the historian Peter Brown credited with inventing?
Peter Brown is credited with bringing coherence to the study of Late Antiquity, and he is often regarded as the person who invented that field.
Where did Peter Brown teach during his academic career?
Brown taught at Royal Holloway College in London from 1975-1978, at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1978-1986, and at Princeton University from 1986-2011, where he became the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus.
What books did Peter Brown write about Late Antiquity?
Brown wrote Augustine of Hippo: A Biography in 1967, The World of Late Antiquity in 1971, The Body and Society in 1988, and Through the Eye of a Needle in 2012, among other books.
Why did Peter Brown switch from science to Greek at Shrewsbury School?
Brown's housemaster redirected him from science into Greek after he scored highly on his entrance examination, telling him he would do Greek instead. Brown studied Greek for a year before moving into the study of history.
What prizes has Peter Brown won for his books?
Brown's books have won the Arts Council of Great Britain Prize for Augustine of Hippo, the Vursell Award and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for The Body and Society, and the Jacques Barzun Prize, Philip Schaff Prize and R.R. Hawkins Award for Through the Eye of a Needle.