Journeys of the Mind : : A Life in History / / Peter Brown.

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• VerfasserIn: Brown, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (736 p.)

A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historiansThe end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the “neglected half-millennium” now known as late antiquity was in fact crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age. As he and other scholars opened up the history of the classical world in its last centuries to the wider world of Eurasia and northern Africa, they discovered previously overlooked areas of religious and cultural creativity as well as foundational institution-building. A respect for diversity and outreach to the non-European world, relatively recent concerns in other fields, have been a matter of course for decades among the leading scholars of late antiquity.Documenting both his own intellectual development and the emergence of a new and influential field of study, Brown describes his childhood and education in Ireland, his university and academic training in England, and his extensive travels, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. He discusses fruitful interactions with the work of scholars and colleagues that include the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the French theorist Michel Foucault, and offers fascinating snapshots of such far-flung places as colonial Sudan, midcentury Oxford, and prerevolutionary Iran. With Journeys of the Mind, Brown offers an essential account of the “grand endeavor” to reimagine a decisive historical moment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Ireland to Shrewsbury -- 1 Home and Abroad: The Protestant Irish -- 2 Empire: The Greys -- 3 Decline and Fall -- 4 Squireens: The Warrens from County Meath to Dublin -- 5 Rugby Football: Bob Warren -- 6 Dubliners: The Lamont Browns -- 7 Sudan: North and South -- 8 Atbara: Life Abroad -- 9 Time of War: Home and Abroad in Time of War -- 10 The Boss -- 11 Dublin Days: “Number Sixty” -- 12 Who’s What? Identities -- 13 The Modern World -- 14 To Be a Tweak: Shrewsbury School -- 15 You Shall Do Greek -- 16 Modern Side -- 17 The Duke: History with “the Duke” -- 18 Into New Worlds: Laurence Lequesne and Frank McEachran -- 19 Sense of the Past -- 20 Oxford 1952 -- 21 Encounters with the Past: Archives and Abbeys -- 22 Switzerland and the Late Middle Ages -- 23 German at Home: Ernst Scheyer -- 24 End of the Ancient World -- Part II. Oxford To All Souls -- 25 Idylls: Oxford 1953 -- 26 Very “Oxford”: C. S. Lewis -- 27 France 1954 -- 28 An Oxford Medievalist 1954 -- 29 Friends and Books -- 30 The Age of Augustine -- 31 “Decadence” or “Late Antiquity”? Henri-Irénée Marrou -- 32 Cowley Road -- 33 “A Very Special Degree”: Finals -- 34 To All Souls -- 35 All Souls: Courtesy and Ignorance -- 36 Teaching, Writing, and Rome -- 37 Libraries, Lectures, and Talks -- 38 Religious Dissent: The Case of North Africa -- 39 Religious Coercion -- Part III. Augustine to the holy man -- 40 Writing Augustine of Hippo -- 41 From Life and Times to Biography -- 42 Patristic Summer 1963 -- 43 Encounters: Henri-Irénée Marrou and Robert Markus -- 44 All’s Well That Ends Well 1966 -- 45 Resonances -- 46 Toward the East: Bohemia, the Balkans, and East Rome -- 47 Byzantium, Persia, and the Rise of Islam -- 48 Hebrew -- 49 Anthropology and History: E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- 50 Mary Douglas -- 51 Society and the Supernatural -- 52 Oxford under Strain -- 53 The Holy Man -- Part IV. The world of late antiquity to Iran -- 54 The World of Late Antiquity: An Invitation and a Title -- 55 From Marcus Aurelius . . . -- 56 To Muhammad: Late Antiquity in a Wider World -- 57 Medieval Change -- 58 Presences -- 59 From the Mediterranean . . . -- 60 To Iran -- 61 The Royal Road: Tehran to Kermanshah -- 62 Palaces and Rock Carvings: Firuzabad and Naqsh-e Rostam -- 63 Three Cities: Esfahan, Tabriz, and Mashhad -- 64 Yazd -- Part V: Berkeley 1975 to Cairo -- 65 Berkeley 1975 -- 66 Royal Holloway College -- 67 Genius Loci: Political Thought, World History, and Islam -- 68 On the East Coast -- 69 To the Top of the World: Takht-e Soleyman -- 70 “Guardians of the Sacred Flame”: David Frost -- 71 From the Zagros to Afghanistan -- 72 Afghanistan -- 73 Twilight of Empire -- 74 Invisible Friends in Visible Places -- 75 Maynooth to California -- 76 The Weight of Islam -- 77 Cairo -- Part VI: Berkeley to Princeton -- 78 Berkeley 1978: The Philosopher and Society -- 79 The Return of Religion: From Revolution to Adab -- 80 Poverty and Power: Évelyne Patlagean and Paul Veyne -- 81 Teaching -- 82 The Tranformation of the Classical Heritage -- 83 Sexuality: Michel Foucault -- 84 At the Bear’s Lair: Encounters with Foucault -- 85 Virginity in Venice -- 86 Body and City -- 87 Winter in Venice -- 88 Surprised in Venice -- 89 The Collège de France -- 90 Pierre Hadot -- 91 A Might-Have- Been 92 The Northeast Corridor -- 92 The Northeast Corridor -- 93 High Gravity -- 94 Writing Body and Society -- 95 From Origen to Augustine -- 96 Arnaldo Momigliano -- 97 Remembering Arnaldo -- 98 Mums -- 99 Shifting Boundaries -- Postscript -- Since Then -- Index