Peter Brown to give the Inaugural Lecture for The James M. and Margaret H. Costan Lecture in Early Christianity: ‘What Has Athens to do with Jerusalem?’
The Theology Department, Georgetown University
Invites you to
The James M. and Margaret H. Costan Lecture in Early Christianity:
‘What Has Athens to do with Jerusalem?’
Inaugural Lecture by
Peter Brown
Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
“Alms, Work, and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt”
Thursday, December 4, 2014
5:00 p.m.
I.C.C. Auditorium
Georgetown University
Books by Professor Brown: Augustine of Hippo (1967, 2000); The World of Late Antiquity (1971); The Cult of the Saints (1982); The Body and Society (1988); Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: towards a Christian Empire (1992); Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World (1995); The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000 (1996, 2003; 2013); 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).
For more information, please contact Prof. Julia A. Lamm, julia.lamm@georgetown.edu