Genesi della tarda antichità

Trei prelegeri ținute acum (aproape) o jumătate de veac de către un eminent istoric al religiilor. Alături de savantul francez Henri-Irénée Marrou, Peter Brown a contribuit decisiv la impunerea sintagmei „Antichitate tîrzie” (cf. și Paul Veyne, Peter Brown, Aline Rousselle, Genèse de l’Antiquité tar Leggi tutto

The Dune: Messiah to The World of Late Antiquity's Dune.

Composed with a fine sense of erudition and an appreciation of the complexity of the world it seeks to describe, "The Making of Late Antiquity" by Peter R.L. Brown began as the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures at Harvard University in April of 1976. These rather auspicious beginnings presage great thing Leggi tutto

I cannot recommend this book highly enough! In just over 100 pages, Peter Brown eloquently explores the nature of the changing social and religious aspects of the ancient world from the second to fourth centuries AD. This book is derived from four lectures that Brown originally gave in 1976 and does Leggi tutto

in this volume, brown argues that the rise of christianity wasnt so much a sudden, dramatic event, but rather a slow transition, in which the mentality of the people (who were supposedly already used to many of the christian practices, as they mirrored their own) played a major role. the thesis is so Leggi tutto

Dense but thoroughly rewarding, an essential read on the developments that changed the classical world and introduced Christianity to the Roman state. Coming from the shadows of generations of historians who thought that the changes which made Christianity a roman religion were exterior (wars, invasi Leggi tutto

Based on lectures, the chapters are each one speech. Since written by an academic, the book would have actually been easier to read and understand if the endnotes were instead footnotes. I read this book after having just finished The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-75o also by Peter R.L. Brown . T

Picked up this short book off the shelf, because I am interested in the topic (currently reading City of God and Brown's biography of Augustine). I found parts of it interesting, but this is definitely an academic work for those who have lots of prior knowledge of the subject. Much of the text is de Leggi tutto