Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

by: Brown, P.

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About the Book
With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.

Table of Contents
Preface

PART I
APPROACHES

Learning and Imagination
(Inaugural Lecture, Royal Holloway College, 1977)

Gibbon's Views on Culture and Society in the Fifth
and Sixth Centuries
(Daedalus CV [1976): 73-88; Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire, 1977, pp. 37- 52)

In Gibbon's Shade
(New York Review of Books XXIII (1976]: 14-18)

Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne
(Daedalus CI11(1974]: 25-33)

PART II
SOCIETY AND THE HOLY

The Last Pagan Emperor:
Robert Browning's The Emperor Julian
(Times Literary Supplement, 8 April1977, pp. 425-26)

The Rise and Function of the Holy Man
in Late Antiquity
(Journal of Roman Studies LXI[I97I]: 80-101)

Town, Village and Holy Man: The Case of Syria
(Assimilation et resistance a Ia culture greco-romaine dans
le monde ancien, 1976, pp. 213-20)

Eastern and Western Christendom in Late Antiquity:
A Parting of the Ways
(The Orthodox Churches and the West, 1976, pp. 1-24)

The View from the Precipice
(New York Review of Books XXI[1974]: 3-5)

Artifices of Eternity
(written with Sabine MacCormack,
New York Review of Books XXII [1975]: 19-22)

Relics and Social Status
in the Age of Gregory of Tours
(The Stenton Lecture, 1976; University of Reading, 1977)

A Dark Age Crisis:
Aspects of the Iconoclastic Controversy
(English Historical-Review LXXXVIII [1973]: 1-34)

Society and the Supernatural: A Medieval Change
(Daedalus CIV [1975]: 133-51)

Index

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

by: Brown, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780520043053 / 978-0-520-04305-3
• ISBN-03: 0520043057 / 0-520-04305-7
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock