Brown is perhaps most well-known for his classic biography of St. Augustine of Hippo. That book was published in 1967, and his career has ranged far and wide since, taking him from holy men of Syria ...

Peter Brown got into acting when he was in the army by organizing a theater group on base to occupy his spare time while stationed in Alaska. After his discharge he enrolled in the acting program at ...

Peter Brown is the emperor of the history of Late Antiquity, a period he defines as roughly between A.D. 200 and 700. Following Gibbon in “Decline and Fall,” we used to call these centuries an age of ...