Peter Brown

Biographic Data

ID3604516
NAMEPeter Brown
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN P
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0001-6130-7039
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS155
TOTAL CITATIONS736
AUTHOR COUNT149
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX14

  • Transitions: A Historian's Memoir

    P J Brown, Peter BrownARTICLECommon Knowledge2025

    As a rule, reading intellectual autobiographies can be a tepid experience. When not downright vindictive or self-promoting, the author often seems to hover effortlessly, like a hang glider, over the field, far above the sweat, the chill sense of ignorance, and the crashing through the undergrowth that accompanies the search for truth about the past. Such essays assume that thought begins only with the first graduate paper and continues, triumphan…

  • ‘Once a finger is pointed at you, that part of you has gone’: The completion of Horizon programme in the community and carceral citizenship for men with sexual convictions

    Open AccessAndrew Fowler, Peter Brown et al.ARTICLEProbation Journal2024

    This study presents an analysis of the experiences of 15 men convicted of sexual offences, from England and Wales, who have completed the Horizon treatment programme in the community, facilitated by The Probation Service. We found that whilst men felt initially coerced into the programme, finishing the programme was experienced as a significant loss of support. Beyond the programme, the men described the constraints on their citizenship, difficul…

  • Portrait: Peter Brown

    Open AccessP J Brown, Peter Brown et al.ARTICLEReligion and Society2024

    I spent the first years of my life in Sudan where my father worked for the Sudan railways. I was proud to have a Daddy whose railway network stretched, over hundreds of miles, from the borders of Egypt to the savannahs and the great green swamps of the southern Nile. One of my first childhood memories is from 1937 when, at the ripe age of two, I respectfully fed my Mickey Mouse handkerchief to the resident hippopotamus in the Khartoum zoo

  • Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

    Peter Brown, Peter de Nully Brown et al.BOOKJourneys of the Mind2023

  • Francis Robinson: Personal recollections

    Open AccessPatricia R Brown, Peter BrownARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…2023References: 1

    The three years that I spent at Royal Holloway, University of London between 1975 and 1978, as professor and head of the History Department, were among the happiest and most purposive of my entire academic life. This was due, in no small part, to my instant friendship with Francis Robinson. We soon realised that our interests converged to a remarkable degree, despite the gulf of almost two millennia between my own concern for the world of Late An…

  • Peter Brown and the Making of Late Antiquity (entretien avec Peter Brown)

    Open AccessPatricia R Brown, Peter BrownARTICLEAnabases2022

    What are the moments and personalities that stand out in your university education? How were your relations with Frenchspeaking colleagues or authors? I owe most in the opening phases of my work to two towering figures: Arnaldo Momigliano and Henri-Irénée Marrou. In 1956, Arnaldo Momigliano was nominated as the director of my dissertation on “The Social and Economic Position of the Roman Senatorial Aristocracy of Italy in the Sixth Century AD.” A…

  • The anthropology of health systems: A history and review

    Open AccessSvea Closser, Gordon Guest et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022

    Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken policymakers and health staff as points of entry into the power structures that run through the global health enterprise. In the last decade, there has been a surge of ethnographic work on health systems. We conceptualize the anthropology of health systems as a field; review t…

  • Brent Shaw: An Intellectual Profile

    Open AccessPeter BrownCHAPTEREmpire and Religion in the Roman…2021

    The chapter is a brief attempt to follow the development of Brent Shaw’s work from his first, splendidly iconoclastic revision of the role of pastoral nomadism in Roman North Africa and in the ancient world in general (from 1981 onward) to his recent pair of crowning masterpieces, both published in 2013 – the first, on religious violence in Roman North Africa in the time of Augustine; the second, on harvesting in the ancient world. In between, I …

  • Geç Anti̇k Çağ'da İpek Yolu

    P J Brown, Peter Brown et al.ARTICLEGenel Türk Tarihi Araştırmaları…2021

    Eskiçağ tarih yazımında yeni bir ifade olarak MS II. yüzyılın sonlarından başlayıp VIII. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar olan dönem “Geç Antikçağ“ olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Geç Antikçağ kavramını akademik bir disipline dönüştüren isim tartışmasız Peter Brown olmuştur. Bu dönemde batı dünyası ve Akdeniz'in doğusunda dini, siyasi, toplumsal ve ekonomik olarak köklü değişimler meydana gelmiştir. Bu süreç içerisinde batı ve doğu arasında siyasi, sosyal-kültü…

  • Ian Masser: Some personal reflections

    Open AccessP J Brown, Peter BrownARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2021

  • Sam Stern

    Peter BrownARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2021

  • Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity

    Patricia R Brown, Peter BrownCHAPTERBefore Sexuality2020

  • Hemofilter Obstruction with Intravenous Lipid Administration

    Open AccessPeter Brown, Joseph I Boullata et al.ARTICLEJournal of Parenteral and Enteral…2020

    A critically ill patient requiring continuous venovenous hemofiltration therapy received parenteral nutrition through the same commonly used intravascular device. The inclusion of injectable lipid emulsion had an adverse effect on hemofilter function. This was successfully managed first by using lipid‐free parenteral nutrition and then by administering the total nutrient admixture via a separate central venous access device.

  • Le Heiva (Tahiti): La musique dansée comme « fait social total »

    Peter BrownARTICLEHermès2020

    L’article présente le Heiva de Tahiti (Heiva i Tahiti), à la fois « festival-compétition » annuel qui renoue avec une tradition millénaire et phénomène social contemporain. Il étudie les relations entre musique, danse (’ori tahiti) et chants traditionnels (hīmeme), composantes essentielles de la culture tahitienne. Pour comprendre le contexte de ces modes d’expression, l’article analyse le concept transversal de « culture » en Océanie. Il considè…

  • Ross Chambers: Loitering Still

    Patricia R Brown, Peter BrownARTICLEAustralian Journal of French…2020

    International audience

  • A New Companion to Chaucer

    Open AccessPeter BrownBOOKNew Companion to Chaucer2019

    This essay invites its readers to view the Canterbury Tales through the prism of the Parson’s Tale, utilising his treatise to diagnose the manifold sins of Chaucer’s cast of characters. At times the Canterbury Tales encourages its audience to activate their knowledge of sin, garnered in Chaucer’s contemporaries through repeated exposure to penitential guidance. Tavern sins, and Harry Bailley’s defining sin, exposed by the opportunistic Pardoner a…

  • Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? “Out of the Body, Who Are We?”: Augustine, the Care of the Dead, and a Clash of Representations

    Open AccessPeter BrownCHAPTERFormations of Belief2019

    This chapter charts an epochal change in how life beyond the grave was imagined as the Mediterranean world Christianized in the late antique period. Heaven was a dwelling place not just for the great and good, who after death found a place for themselves as stars in the firmament. It was, rather, a testing ground for all souls, striving to purge themselves of sin and to draw closer to God. The living were in a position to speed that journey along…

  • New Companion to Chaucer

    Peter BrownBOOKNew Companion to Chaucer2019

  • New Companion to Chaucer

    Peter BrownBOOKNew Companion to Chaucer2019

  • Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular

    Philip G Nord, Katja Günther et al.BOOKFormations of Belief2019

  • George Soros: L’énigme des stéréotypes

    P J Brown, Peter BrownARTICLEHermès2019

    Cet article présente une étude de cas : George Soros, financier et philanthrope, ennemi avéré tantôt de la gauche tantôt de la droite, à l’occasion des deux à la fois, sujet également d’attaques antisémites et de critiques israéliennes. Le parcours de cet individu hors normes, depuis sa naissance en Hongrie entre les deux guerres jusqu’à ses activités de mécène (Central European University, Budapest, notamment), en passant par sa vie de banquier …

  • Were There Slaves in the Audience of Plautus’ Comedies

    Open AccessPeter BrownARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2019References: 18

    The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence commonly claimed to show the presence of slaves in the audience of Plautus’ comedies (above all the evidence of his prologue to Poenulus ) and to argue that it more probably shows the opposite, that slaves were not present, or at least were expected not to be. The question is given some urgency by the appearance of Amy Richlin's new book, which takes the presence of slaves in the audience for g…

  • The New Caledonian referendum: Events, processes, decolonization

    Patricia R Brown, Peter BrownARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    This article considers the referendum on self-determination held in New Caledonia on 4 November 2018. It sets this vote in context by reviewing previous referenda in this French overseas collectivity, beginning in 1958. The vote in the recent referendum was closer than many, Kanak included, expected (43.33 per cent in favour, 56.67 per cent against). The article analyses this result and takes into account aspects of social change in New Caledonia…

  • “Charismatic” Goods: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Cultural Contacts along the Silk Road in Late Antiquity

    Open AccessPeter BrownCHAPTEREmpires and Exchanges in Eurasian…2018

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  • Le regard des correspondants étrangers d’ Hermès: La cohabitation culturelle en Océanie

    Peter BrownARTICLEHermès2018