Peter Brown

Through the Eye of a Needle

Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

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Produktbeschreibung

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. This book offers a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 808
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1130g
• ISBN-13: 9780691161778
• ISBN-10: 0691161771
• Artikelnr.: 39752208

Autorenporträt

Peter Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His many books include The World of Late Antiquity , The Rise of Western Christendom, and Augustine of Hippo.

Rezensionen

"[O]utstanding. . . . Brown lays before us a vast panorama of the entire culture and society of the late Roman west."--Peter Thornemann, Times Literary Supplement