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ISBN: 9780500330227 - The World of Late Antiquity The World of Late Antiquity
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0500330220  ISBN13: 9780500330227
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Mar 1989

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ISBN: 9780192804297 - Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0192804294  ISBN13: 9780192804297
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Aug 2011
This book examines Chaucer's life and poetry through the lens of his cultural experience. It offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which his works sprang, and examines the works in detail. It considers the intellectual and... More

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ISBN: 9780226076225 - The Cult of the Saints The Cult of the Saints
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0226076229  ISBN13: 9780226076225
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 1982
Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected... More

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ISBN: 9781584651468 - Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 1584651466  ISBN13: 9781584651468
Publisher: University Press of New England Brandeis University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 2001
A preeminent classical scholar on the emergence of one of our most familiar social divisions. 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... More

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ISBN: 9780316070300 - You Will Be My Friend! You Will Be My Friend!
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0316070300  ISBN13: 9780316070300
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Little, Brown Young Readers
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 Oct 2011
Lucy the bear from the bestselling "Children Make Terrible Pets"--a "New York Times" Best Illustrated Children's Book--stars in this hilarious, heartwarming story about making new friends. Full color. Today is the day the exuberant Lucy is going... More

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ISBN: 9781405195522 - A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture C.1350-c.1500 A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture C.1350-c.1500
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 1405195525  ISBN13: 9781405195522
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Oct 2009
* A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. * Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. * Reflects the erosion of the traditional... More

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ISBN: 9780299133443 - Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0299133443  ISBN13: 9780299133443
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Oct 1992
Traces the growing power of early Christian bishops as they wrested influence from the philosophers who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society, transforming the Roman empire from an ancient to a medieval society. More

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ISBN: 9780231144070 - The Body and Society The Body and Society
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0231144075  ISBN13: 9780231144070
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: 20th anniversary ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Feb 2008
Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both... More

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ISBN: 9780631221388 - The Rise of Western Christendom The Rise of Western Christendom
Peter Brown Bray, Roger

ISBN10: 0631221387  ISBN13: 9780631221388
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwell Publishers
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Nov 2002
This book offers a history of the first thousand years of Christianity. Ranging across the Christian world from China to Iceland, the narrative illustrates the diversity of Christian beliefs and practices. It also places the rise of Christianity... More

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ISBN: 9780752470030 - RAF Southend RAF Southend
Peter Brown

ISBN10: 0752470035  ISBN13: 9780752470030
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 2012
Focuses on the airport between October 1940 and August 1944, from when it became a fighter station in its own right, to it becoming an armament practice camp later in the war. This title describes the manning and maintenance of the forward fighter... More