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Journeys of the Mind - A Life in History (Hardcover)
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Journeys of the Mind - A Life in History (Hardcover)
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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.
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