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	Wikipedia: Brown
		Brown refers to colors produced by mixing small intensities of red and green light.
		An example of a brown color in the RGB color space has intensities [150, 75, 0] on a 0 to 255 scale.
		Brown is a short name for the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/b/br/brown.html (266 words)

	Peter Brown - Christianbook.com
		Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered).
		In this fascinating study, Peter Brown, a leading historian of the late antique world, examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian 'thought world' possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church.
		Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators, at ground level, of a working compromise between the new faith and tranditional ways of dealing with the supernatural world.
	www.christianbook.com /Christian/Books/cms_content/259406495?page=580773&sp=1008&event=1008\|572704\|1008 (692 words)

	brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brown is a color produced by mixing small intensities of red and green light.
		An example of a brown color in the RGB color space has intensities [150, 75, 0] on a 0 to 255 scale.
		Brown is a short name for the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Brown.html (342 words)

	UPNE - Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire: Peter Brown
		In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of "the poor" as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church claimed a special responsibility.
		Brown gracefully illuminates a crucial transition from classical to Christian culture: the emergence of a new understanding of what society -- and the Church -- owes to the poor that continues to resonate.
		PETER BROWN, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, is a leading authority on the society of late antiquity and early Christianity.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/1-58465-145-8.html (344 words)

	gift Peter_Brown_ historian - gift-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although "historian" can be used to describe amateur and professional historians alike, it is now often reserved for people whose work is recognized in academia, particularly those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline.
		Many of the historians of the past have been called upon to write histories either to furnish a king or a ruling class with a lineage, thereby offering it legitimacy, or to give a people a cultural heritage and sense of identity (see aetiology).
		Polybius, one of the first historians to attempt to present history as a sequence of causes and effects, carefully conducted his researchâ”partly based on what he saw and partly on the communications of eye-witnesses and the participants in the events.
	www.gift-report.com /Peter_Brown_%28historian%29 (1234 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Peter Brown
		Brown's success stems from his mastery of and zest for source material, compounded with social insight, carefully digested historiographic and social theory, and a sharp eye for human beings, according to Oxford Don Robin Lane Fox.
		Brown, the rambler, born in 1935 in Dublin into a Protestant Irish family, was educated at Aravon School, Bray, County Dublin; Shrewsbury School; and New College, Oxford.
		Brown is looking for the mental and social constructs as well as the imaginative boundaries that characterize late antiquity.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/brown (2253 words)

	UW Press - : Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire, Peter Brown
		Peter Brown is a writer of highly emotive as well as extremely clever prose.
		Peter Brown is a widely recognized master of this pivotal moment of history.
		Peter Brown is the Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University.
	www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/0038.htm (395 words)

	Peter Brown (historian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History.
		In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow.
		He has been instrumental in popularizing the historical period of Late Antiquity and study of the cult of saints.
	www.punweb.com /article/Peter_Brown_(historian) (168 words)

	KNAW > The Heineken Prizes > Laureates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peter R. Brown received the prize in recognition of the fact that his work is not afraid to challenge conventional historical wisdom.
		As an historian Brown oversteps the traditional chronological boundaries between the late Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages in his search for what distinguished and what united pagans and Christians, and for the answers to the questions as to how and why the pagan world of ancient Rome was gradually transformed into the Christian.
		Peter R.L. Brown was born in Dublin in 1935.
	www.knaw.nl /cfdata/heineken/laureates_detail.cfm?winnaar__id=40 (350 words)

	How the Early Church Practiced Charity
		The sustained effort to care for the poor that came to characterize the church is derived, Brown suggests, from "an ancient Near Eastern model of justice" mediated through the church’s liturgical use of the Old Testament.
		In his final chapter Brown observes that the growing appreciation of the legitimacy of the cry of the poor created a social awareness that the powerful were obligated to provide justice and protection for the poor.
		Brown argues that the rhetorical revolution that legitimated the cry of the needy transformed all relationships away from earlier modes in which the poor were mute and invisible.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2700 (1551 words)

	Christian Century: Inventing the poor: how the early church practiced charity. - Poverty and Leadership in the Later ...
		Brown observes that the main body of the church was made up of "middling persons" who were not wealthy but who made modest but steady contributions to the church's support of the poor.
		Brown finishes with a remarkable discussion of the Christology of Nestorius and Cyril of Alexandria in their effort to sort out both the distance and solidarity between the Father and Son by comparing it to the distance between God and believer and between rich and poor.
		Brown argues that the rhetorical revolution that legitimated the cry of the needy transformed all relationships away from earlier modes in which the poor were mute and invisible.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_12_120/ai_103996826 (1349 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Historian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
		Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/hi/Historian?title=Samuel_Eliot_Morison (263 words)

	Review \| The Rise of Western Christendom by Peter Brown
		Rare among historians, Peter Brown is the most amiable of literary companions.
		In fact, writes Brown, the era of Boniface, especially, was "characterized by a plethora of little books." Some were books of penance, recounting every conceivable sin at an almost mischievous level of detail.
		Brown is careful not to present figures such as Cassiodorus and Boniface as anomalies.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/riseofwestern.html (1298 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Peter Brown (historian)"
		Brown, who reads at least fifteen languages, established himself at the unusually young age of 32 with his authoritative biography of Augustine of Hippo.
		A steady stream of books and articles has since appeared, and Brown is now the most prominent historian of Late Antiquity.
		In articles and new editions Brown said that his earlier work, which had deconstructed many of the religious aspects of his field of study, needed to be reassessed.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=peter_%42rown_(historian) (296 words)

	The Da Vinci Code - Book Review
		And indeed Dan Brown seems to be unfamiliar with this most recent restoration, since the only one he refers to in the context is one that, he appears to say, was concluded in 1954.
		This lapse on Brown’s part may derive from his reliance on The Templar Revelation, which, as we said, was published in 1997, two years before the completion of the most recent restoration.
		Brown says that the intention of Constantine’s Bible order was to make Jesus into a God: “Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike” (p.
	www.irr.org /da-vinci-code.html (6961 words)

	Review \| The Rise of Western Christendom by Peter Brown
		Rare among historians, Peter Brown is the most amiable of literary companions.
		In fact, writes Brown, the era of Boniface, especially, was "characterized by a plethora of little books." Some were books of penance, recounting every conceivable sin at an almost mischievous level of detail.
		Brown is careful not to present figures such as Cassiodorus and Boniface as anomalies.
	januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/riseofwestern.html (1297 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Rise of Western Christendom : Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 AD: Books: Peter Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peter Brown first came to my attention through his scholarship in the study of Augustine, one of my particular interests in the field of church history.
		Brown preserves the diversity inherent in the original church, showing the growth in Latin and Greek areas, as well as other areas that would arise such as the Antioch/Aleppo area, where Coptic and Syriac were significant languages, and art, architecture, liturgical development and scholarship thrived for centuries as a major centre for Christianity.
		Brown includes the various tales of conversion for the different nations (the deliberations of the Icelanders, for example, versus the more forced conversions of the Norse) as well as the theological and administrative variations and homogenisation in the more central Mediterranean region.
	www.amazon.ca /Rise-Western-Christendom-Diversity-200-1000/dp/0631221387 (2097 words)

	Cover story: Ancient forces shaped our lives
		Historians insist it wasn’t really that bad, though this would be cold comfort to the many who truly were thrown to the lions.
		While he remains an enigma to historians, it is clear he goosed the fourth century and sent much of civilization down a road on which there was no turning back.
		Historian Peter Brown, in Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire, writes of such famous bishops as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa as “local notables, proud of their good birth and of their possession of paideia.”
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/051900/051900a.htm (5209 words)

	Inventing the poor: how the early church practiced charity.(Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, by Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Princeton historian Peter Brown takes up this issue of care for the poor as it was practiced in the fourth and fifth centuries of the Christian era.
		Christians, on the other hand--and especially bishops--were charged to be "lovers of the poor," a category that comprised both those poor in fact ("deep poverty") and those who lived under the constant threat of poverty ("shallow poverty").
		Brown appeals particularly to the word play of Isaiah 5:7: the monumental clarity and poetic elegance of the juxtaposition of the term z'daqah, "the cry," with its remedy, ze 'aqah, "justice." This was not lost on the great Hebraist, Saint Jerome.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-103996826.html (1642 words)

	Ennen ja nyt - historian tietosanomat
		The eminent Peter Brown, commenting on insular examples of control and criticism, offered that possibly the Anglo-Latin ecclesiasts were faced with a “vernacular visionary culture, stirred by Christianity but unamenable to ecclesiastical control”, making them wary of the problematic nature of the phenomena.
		Peter Brown introduces his suggestion with a reference to a passage in the early eighth-century Life of St. Guthlac ( possibly around 714), ostensibly indicating the peculiar problems the insular ecclesiasts had with out-of-control charismatics.
		[20] And, beyond P. Brown’s hypothesis, this is suggested by a reaction to a ninth-century continental case of “real” popular visionary culture: in 847 in Constance a woman called Thiota was brought before Hraban Maur for questioning concerning her reputed visions of the end of the world.
	www.ennenjanyt.net /4-04/referee/keskiaho.html (6313 words)

	History \| Peter Brown Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ever since Edward Gibbon, historians had tended to view this period as one of decline and fall into darkness and chaos.
		The historian of late antiquity must be able to talk about religion and how religion and society interact.
		The historian has to ask what forms of opposition gave way, what the alternatives were.
	his.princeton.edu /people/e56/peter_brown_intervie.html (2052 words)

	Profile - Registrar - SMU
		historian, not only enabled us to understand the voices of late Antique and early medieval philosophical polytheism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and early Islam, he also has enabled the voices of those distant eras and very different cultures to speak to us in ways that we can understand.
		In addition to numerous articles, Peter Brown has written more than a dozen books, several of them milestones of historical thought and the integration of aspect of a culture usually studied in artificial separation.
		Brown’s work clearly demonstrates what sustained and honest sensitivity can accomplish in shattering our bonds of time and space.
	www.smu.edu /REGISTRAR/Honorary_Degrees/Recipients/All/peter_robert_lamont_brown.asp?print=true (181 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Twelve to receive honorary degrees
		She created the role of Georgia Brown for the Broadway production of "Cabin in the Sky," and in Hollywood she made such films as "Stormy Weather" and "Pardon my Sarong." She produced musicals in New York and choreographed in Paris and at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
		Rudenstine's term as Harvard president was marked by his encouragement of collaboration across scholarly disciplines; extensive restoration and renovation of Harvard's physical resources, including renovations of Memorial Hall and all freshman dorms; and leadership of the $2.1 billion University Campaign, the largest fund drive ever mounted by an educational institution.
		Ruth J. Simmons became the 18th president of Brown University (where she is also a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Africana Studies) in July 2001.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/06.06/01-honorarydegrees.html (2925 words)

	Historically Speaking - April 2002
		There are professional historians who do recognize the problem; and who are capable of writing history with high professional standards and qualities at the same time when their narrative prose is, at least potentially, popular.
		Historians confronting 19th-century religion sometimes assume that theology was only interesting to the elite, but there is plenty of evidence that the people in the pews were as interested in doctrine as those in the pulpit.
		Insofar as Brown referred to religion, it was something vaguely New Age that he called "the holy." His work won acclaim chiefly from historians outside the field, who found its depiction of Late Antiquity intriguing even if they rejected poststructuralism in their own scholarship.
	www.bu.edu /historic/hs/april02.html (14972 words)

	Peter Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the founder of the disco band called Paper Doll, see Peter Brown (singer).
		For the historian and biographer, see Peter Brown (historian)
		For the Scottish rugby player see Peter Brown (rugby player).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Brown (160 words)

	Stephen Laniel’s Unspecified Bunker
		The erudition in the main body of Brown’s work was overwhelming to begin with; now add thirty years of reflection, and you get the epilogue.
		In particular, evidence discovered in the 1960’s has softened Brown’s earlier belief that Augustine was an authoritarian, the spiritual father of the Inquisition.
		Only as I approach the end of Brown’s biography do I understand the uses of what Jason Smith and James Grimmelmann have said: that at bottom, faith is a coming to terms with the absurd.
	laniels.org /weblog/books/brown_peter_r_l (1466 words)

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		When this was happening, the single most comprehensive and authoritative portrait of Augustine was undoubtedly Peter Brown's enthralling biography of 1967, a work that launched the career of that superb historian.
		Brown added an epilogue in two substantial parts to take detailed account of the new discoveries and to ponder their implications for the narrative he had written more than 30 years before.
		His biography by no means replaces Peter Brown's masterpiece, even for a new generation of readers, but it is the work of an impressive Augustinian, eager to promote his subject.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/jod/texts/nytimesreview.html (1081 words)

	Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Revised Edition with a New Epilogue, University of California Press, Peter Robert ...
		These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa.
		Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered).
		As an accomplished historian over this time period, Peter Brown is more than able to accomplish this task.
	allentech.net /techstore/item_0520227573.html (1085 words)

	List of historians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The names are arranged by order of the period in which they were writing, which isn't necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised.
		Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.
		Simon Rutar[?], (1851-1903), historian, geographer, archaeologist and geologist.
	www.city-search.org /li/list-of-historians.html (447 words)

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