Late Antiquity

in This History Of The Late Antique Period, Which Appeared Earlier In The Five-volume Series a History Of Private Life , Peter Brown Shows The Slow Shift From One Form Of Public Community To Another—from The Ancient City To The Christian Church. In The Four Centuries Between Marcus Aurelius (161-180) And Justinian (527-565), The Mediterranean World Passed Through A Series Of Profound Transmutations That Affected The Rhythms Of Life, The Moral Sensibilities, And The Sense Of The Self Of The Inhabitants Of Its Cities, And Of The Countryside Around Them. thomas Wiedemann - Jact Review [ late Antiquity ] Is A Scintillating Essay. Brown Brilliantly Arranges His Intuitions Around The Central Theme Of The 'public' Classical City Being Replaced By The Internalized Christian City Of Another, Non-secular World. That Becomes The Central Pattern Of Explanation For Changes In Attitude To Sexuality, And For The Development Of Unprecedented Respect For Sexual Purity As An Attribute Of Nuns, Monks And Bishops. In this history of the late antique period, which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life, Peter Brown shows the slow shift from one form of public community to another -- from the ancient city to the Christian church In the four centuries between Marcus Aurelius (161-180) and Justinian (527-565), the Mediterranean world passed through a series of profound transmutations that affected the rhythms of life, the moral sensibilities, and the concomitant sense of the self of the inhabitants of its cities, and of the countryside around them. In this history of the late antique period, which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life, Peter Browns shows the slow shift from one form of public community to another--from the ancient city to the Christian church. In the four centuries between Marcus Aurelius (161-180) and Justinian (527-565), the Mediterranean world passed through a series of profound transmutations that affected the rhythms of life, the moral sensibilities, and the sense of the self of the inhabitants of its cities, and of the countryside around them Introduction i The "Wellborn" Few 3 Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity 17 Church and Leadership 33 The Challenge of the Desert si East and West: The New Marital Morality 61 Notes 79 Bibliography B 1 Acknowledgments 85 Index S7