Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire by Peter R.L. Brown

Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire

Peter R.L. Brown

192 pages 1988

1 edition

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops as they wrested influence from philosophers, who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman...

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