Date/Time
Date(s) - 18 Sep 2013
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Location
Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall
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Peter Brown, Princeton University
“Constantine, Eusebius of Caesarea and the Future of Christianity”
Department of Religion
Distinguished Lecture in Religion
Wed., September 18, 2013, 4:30 p.m. (reception prior to lecture, at 4:00)
Alexander Library Lecture Hall
169 College Avenue
Peter Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Often credited with creating the field of study known as Late Antiquity (c. 250-c. 800 CE), he is the author of a dozen books—most recently Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002) and Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West (350-550 AD) (2012). In 2008 he received the distinguished Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.