Professor Peter Brown FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1971
Subjects
Classics

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 Oliver Taplin FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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Professor Gillian Clark FBA

The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century

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Professor Gregory Hutchinson FBA

Greek and Latin poetry and prose, especially from c.750 BC to AD c.300; interests include: motion, attention, genre, prose-rhythm, poetry-books, papyri, inscriptions, relation of prose and poetry, Greek and Latin

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