Awards
Winner of the 1989 Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
Synopses & Reviews
Review
"The reader of Peter Brown's work is always uncertain which to admire most, the grace and clarity, the scope and erudition, or the ability to bring diverse and complex units into a meaningful whole. These merits are all fully on display in The Body and Society." New York Times Book Review
Review
"A profound sociological and intellectual study... Brown has written a magisterial survey, a lasting work of scholarship." The New York Review of Books
About the Author
Peter Brown, formerly professor of Classics and History at the University of California, Berkley, is now Rollins Professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. His previous books include Augustine of Hippo, The World of Late Antiquity, The Making of Late Antiquity, The Cult of The Saints, Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine, and Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity.