Brown is awfully good at catching the constraints imposed by the notions of shabby gentility in which a whole class is trapped Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Author : Peter Brown ISBN-13 : 978-0691242286 Publisher : Princeton University Press Guideline Price : £38 Peter Brown is the pre-eminent living scholar of the era known as Late Antiquity – roughly the period between AD 200 and 700. He did not invent the field, but he has achieved a prominence in it which is rare in any other area of scholarship today. The author of more than a dozen...