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 Gian Biagio Conte FBA

Latin literature and textual criticism, especially of Latin poetical texts; literary theory and interpretation of Classical texts; history of scholarship

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Professor Robin Osborne FBA

Classics and Ancient History History Art and Archaeology of Greece and the Greek World History of Greece and the Greek World Southern Europe Greece

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Professor Robert Fowler FBA

Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship

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