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Theology and Social Criticism: Salvian of Marseilles and the End of the Roman Empire in the West

This is a lecture given on April 1, 2010 by Peter Brown of Princeton University, entitled “Theology and Social Criticism: Salvian of Marseilles and the End of the Roman Empire in the West.” This lecture is a part of the free public lecture series sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. A native of Ireland, Professor Brown earned his B.A. in history from Oxford University (1956), where he taught until 1975 as a Fellow of All Souls College. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1986 after teaching at the University of London and the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Brown's primary interests are the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages and the rise of Christianity, and he has pursued them through investigations into such diverse topics as Roman rhetoric, the cult of the saints, the body and sexuality, and wealth and poverty. An outstanding scholar, Dr. Brown is credited with having virtually created the field of study referred to as "late antiquity" (A.D. 250–800), the period during which Rome fell, the three major monotheistic religions took shape, and Christianity spread across Europe. His works include: “Augustine of Hippo” (1967); “The World of Late Antiquity” (1972); “The Cult of the Saints” (1981); “Body and Society” (1988); “The Rise of Western Christendom” (1995 and 2002); “Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire” (2002); and “Through the Eye of the Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West (350–550 AD)” (2012). He is the winner of an Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award, a Klug Prize, and numerous honorary degrees and book prizes.