Die Keuschheit der Engel. Sexuelle Entsagung, Askese und Körperlichkeit im früheren Christentum

"Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity" von Peter Brown untersucht die Rolle des Heiligen und des Übernatürlichen in der spätantiken Gesellschaft. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die verschiedene Aspekte dieser Thematik...

Der Schatz im Himmel: Der Aufstieg des Christentums und der Untergang des römischen Weltreichs

The latest book from a bestselling illustrator and Caldecott Honoree, featuring a very proper tiger who just wants to get a little wild. Bored with city life and the proper behavior it requires, Mr. Tiger has a wild idea that leads him...

The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive and the compromises that made the emergence of the Christian conception of existence...

"Der neugierige Garten" von Nils Aulike ist eine charmante, bildhafte Geschichte über einen kleinen Garten in der Stadt, der sich danach sehnt, mehr von der Welt zu sehen. Der Garten beginnt zu wachsen und zu erkunden, klettert die...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2023 The heartwarming and action-packed illustrated novel exploring what happens when nature and technology collide. When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a...

The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter BrownRoz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home, befriend...

Peter Brown, the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity, examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all...

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. von Brown, Peter

Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. They deal with different kinds of locations (islands,...

This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as...