Peter Robert Lamont Brown is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity
Brown in 2011
A 6th-century picture of Augustine of Hippo
A historian is a scholar who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as
Peter Brown (historian)
…Peter Brown Brown in 2011 Born Peter Robert Lamont Brown 26 July 1935 Dublin, Ireland Occupation Historian Awards Heineken Prize for History (1994); Kluge Prize (2008); Balzan Prize (2011); Dan David Prize (2015) Academic background Education New College…
Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC and one of the earliest historians whose work survives.
Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.
Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444), the historian who first divided history into the three eras of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern times.
A page of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People