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9780571204953 | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $22.01
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. (view table of contents)
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9780520228351 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $85.00
9780880290982 | Hippocrene Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: 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.
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9780520227576 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $31.95
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9780521495578 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $41.99
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9780521595575 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $29.99
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9780231061001 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $103.00 | About this edition: Looks at the development of celibacy in the Christian Church from the first to fifth centuries A.
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9780231061018 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Looks at the development of celibacy in the Christian Church from the first to fifth centuries A.
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9780872201866 | Rev sub edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, October 1, 1993), cover price $8.95
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9780226076225, titled "The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity" | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 15, 1982, cover price $17.00
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9780674005983 | Belknap Pr, November 15, 2001, cover price $21.00
Product Description: In this history of the late antique period, which appeared earlier in the five-volume series A History of Private Life, Peter Brown shows the slow shift from one form of public community to another--from the ancient city to the Christian church...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674511705 | Belknap Pr, April 15, 1998, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In this history of the late antique period, which appeared earlier in the five-volume series A History of Private Life, Peter Brown shows the slow shift from one form of public community to another--from the ancient city to the Christian church.
A colorful tour of late antiquity covers late Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic culture and discusses topics ranging from angels in Islam, concubinage, barbarians and ethnicity, and empire building.
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9780674511736 | Belknap Pr, November 18, 1999, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: A colorful tour of late antiquity covers late Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic culture and discusses topics ranging from angels in Islam, concubinage, barbarians and ethnicity, and empire building.
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9780954384586 | Classical Pr of Wales, May 30, 2005, cover price $95.00
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9781584651451 | Brandeis Univ, November 1, 2001, cover price $35.00
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9781584651468 | Brandeis Univ, November 1, 2001, cover price $24.95
Peter Brown, a known authority on Mediterranean civilisation in late antiquity, traces the growing power of early Christian bishops as they wrested influence from the philosophers who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society. In the new "Christian empire", the ancient bonds of citizen to citizen and of each city to its benefactors were replaced by a common loyalty to a distant, Christian autocrat. This transformation of the Roman Empire from an ancient to a medieval society, Brown argues, is among the most far-reaching consequences of the rise of Christianity. In the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the power of the emperors depended on collaboration with the local elites. The shared ideals of Graeco-Roman culture ("paideia"), which were inculcated among the elite by their education, acted as unwritten constitution. The philosophers, as representives of this cultural tradition and as critics and advisors of the powerful, upheld the ideals of just rule and prevented the abuses of power. Between the conversion of Emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 and the reign of Theodosius (379-395), however, both Christian bishops and uneducated monks emerged as competitors to the traditional educated elites. Claiming as Christians to be the "true philosophers", they asserted their own role in swaying the emperors to mercy and just rule. Brown shows how charity to the urban poor gave bishops such as Saint Ambrose a novel power base - the restless lower classes of the empire. The lines of power that led from local society to the imperial court increasingly fell into the hands of the church, as clerics exercised their power to ensure the peace in cities, secure amnesties, and convey to the emperor the wishes of his subjects. Brown also points out how churchmen expressed their new local power through violence against rivals: Jewish synagogues and Roman Temples were destroyed, and Hypatia, one of the few women with a public role as a philosopher, was lynched in Alexandria. Brown demonstrates how Christian teaching provided a model for a more autocratic, hierarchial empire: the ancient ideals of democracy and citizenship gave way to the image of a glorious ruler showing mercy to his lowly and grateful subjects. Drawing upon a wealth of material - newly discovered letters and sermons of Saint Augustine, archaeological evidence, manuscripts in Coptic and Syriac - he provides a portrait of a turbulent and fascinating era.
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9780299133405 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Peter Brown, a known authority on Mediterranean civilisation in late antiquity, traces the growing power of early Christian bishops as they wrested influence from the philosophers who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society.
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9780299133443 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 15, 1992, cover price $18.95
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9780631221371 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 1, 2002), cover price $64.95
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9780631221388 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, January 13, 2003), cover price $51.95
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9780520043053 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1982, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.
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9780520068001 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $33.95
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9780155976337 | Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1971, cover price $9.95 | also contains Watch the Skies
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9780393958034 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $31.35
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