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...

The author links Chaucer's writings with the medieval optical tradition in its various forms (scholastic texts, encyclopedias, exempla, vernacular poetry) both in general cultural terms and through the discussion of specific examples. He...

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and...

Bobby has a problem at school. It's his teacher, Miss Kirby. She stomps, she roars, and she won't even let him throw paper aeroplanes in class... what a monster! One day the unthinkable happens when Bobby bumps into Miss Kirby outside...

An exuberant new picture book from NYT bestselling author Peter Brown, inspired by his own childhoodFred loves to be naked! He romps around his house naked and wild and free. Until he romps into his parents' bedroom and is inspired,...

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Das Buch "Die letzten Heiden. Eine kleine Geschichte der Spätantike" von Peter Brown untersucht die Übergangsphase vom Heidentum zum Christentum in der späten Römischen und frühmittelalterlichen Zeit. Brown beleuchtet das komplexe...

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...