Peter Brown (historian)

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. 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.

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Dublin - Ireland - Protestant - All Souls - Oxford - University of London - UC Berkeley - Princeton University - MacArthur Fellow - Late Antiquity

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