Peter R.L. Brown
Born
in Dublin, Ireland
July 26, 1935
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
16 editions
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1967
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The World of Late Antiquity 150-750
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1971
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The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity
7 editions
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1981
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The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph & Diversity 200–1000
27 editions
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1995
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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome & the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
17 editions
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2012
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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
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1988
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The Making of Late Antiquity
7 editions
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1976
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Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire
6 editions
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1988
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The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
10 editions
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2015
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Authority & the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World
9 editions
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1995
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“To be licensed to exist was not necessarily a license to be loved in an increasingly Christian world.”
― The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
― The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
“Up to 700 A.D., it was assumed that the Christian family cared for their own dead. The clergy played little role in burial and none whatsoever in the arrangement and decoration of tombs.”
― The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
― The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
“The cry of the poor in the Old Testament was a cry for justice. It was a cry made by free men and women, often of moderate—some even of considerable—means. It was the cry of victims. But these were not the victims of poverty so much as they were the victims of violence and oppression brought upon them by persons more powerful than themselves.28 It was this relation of petition to justice that gave weight to the Hebrew assonance by which ze‘aqah—“the cry”—was expected to be met by zedaqah—“righteousness.” And “righteousness” was achieved through an act of justice granted by the powerful to the weak. The word only later came to mean alms given by the wealthy to the poor. This “elegant juxtaposition of words” did not escape the alert eyes of Jerome, in 408–10, as he commented on the classic phrase of the prophet Isaiah: He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness (zedaqah) but, behold, a cry (ze‘aqah) (Isa. 5:7).29 The absorption of the language and history of the Hebrew Scriptures in the Christian communities between the fourth and sixth centuries slowly but surely added a rougher and more assertive texture to the Christian discourse on poverty. The poor were not simply others—creatures who trembled on the margins of society, asking to be saved by the wealthy. Like the poor of Israel, they were also brothers. They had the right to “cry out” for justice in the face of oppressors along with all other members of the “people of God.”
― Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
― Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
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