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Journeys of the Mind - A Life in History
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Books > Biographies > Biographies
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| Author/Artist: |
PETER BROWN |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780691242286 |
| Publisher: |
Princeton University Pres |
| Binding: |
HARDBACK |
| Price: |
AU$79.99 |
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| Description: |
Historian Peter Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of late antiquity. 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.
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. |
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