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Professor Peter Brown FBA

Classics and Ancient History

Elected 1971

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1971
Sections
Classical Antiquity
Website
http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=prbrown

Current post

Princeton University Rollins Professor of History

Past appointments

University of California, Berkeley Professor of History and Classics

1978 - 1986

Royal Holloway, University of London Professor of History

1975 - 1978

Publications

The body and society: men, women and sexual renunciation in early Christianity

Peter Brown - Published in 1989 by Columbia University Press

The world of late antiquity

Peter Brown - Published in 1971 by Thames and Hudson Ltd

Augustine of Hippo: a Biography

Peter Brown - Published in 1967 by Faber and Faber

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor William Fitzgerald FBA

Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.

William Fitzgerald FBA

Professor Nicholas Purcell FBA

Roman social, economic and cultural history, combining the evidence of inscriptions, literary texts, and archaeology; the place of ancient history in the long-term history of the Mediterranean basin and its adjoining regions.

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Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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