Verfasst von:	Brown, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Journeys of the mind
Titelzusatz:	a life in history
Verf.angabe:	Peter Brown
Verlagsort:	Princeton ; Oxford
Verlag:	Princeton University Press
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
Umfang:	xv, 713 Seiten
ISBN:	978-0-691-24228-6
Abstract:	A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historians. The 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
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780691242286.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(p)Brown, Peter    / (s)Altertumswissenschaft
Dokumenttyp:	Autobiografie
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Brown, Peter, 1935 - : Journeys of the mind. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 713 pages)
	Kritik in: Sṭrumzah, Gedalyahu Gʹ., 1948 - : The Making of a Stylite Scholar
	Kritik in: Leppin, Hartmut, 1963 - : Der lange Weg nach Osten
	Kritik in: McKitterick, Rosamond, 1949 - : Exploring Transformations of the Roman World
	Kritik in: Kahlos, Maijastina, 1967 - : "And what an Age!"
	Kritik in: Heyden, Katharina, 1977 - : Religion as a Catalyst for the Historical Imagination
	Kritik in: Rapp, Claudia, 1961 - : Religion as Distant Presence
RVK-Notation:	NB 6650
Sach-SW:	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
	RELIGION / Christianity / History
K10plus-PPN:	1826945571