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Peter Robert Lamont Brown

Peter Brown, formerly professor of classics and history at the University of California, Berkeley, is the Philip and Beuluh Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University and the most prominent scholar of late antiquity (between 250 and 800 AD). He is the author of a dozen books, including "Augustine of Hippo," "Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World," "The Rise of Western Christendom," and "Poverty and Leadership in the Late Roman Empire,"