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Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown is Rollins Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway College in the University of London and of New College at Oxford University. A Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, Brown is credited with having created the study of late antiquity (250-800 AD). His books include Augustine of Hippo: A Biography; The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity; and most recently Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD.