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 David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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Professor John Scheid FBA

Religion & institutions of ancient Rome, between the IIId c. BC & the IIId c.AD (Epigraphy, history & archaeology).

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Professor Dr Irene De Jong FBA

Ancient Greek narrative, especially epic and historiography; the application of modern literary theory, especially narratology, on ancient texts; Greek literary history

Irene De Jong FBA

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