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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 Stephen Oakley FBA

Latin literature and Roman history; Livy, the transmissions and textual traditions of Latin authors, and the topography of pre-Roman Italy

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Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages

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Professor Katherine J. Clarke FBA

The relationship between space and time in ancient historical narratives; Greek and Roman geographical traditions as reflective of changing geopolitical realities; kingly power in the Roman Principate

Katherine J. Clarke FBA (credit Charlie Burnand)

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