Sam Stern

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1 [See Stern, “Literary connections,” 204–230.]

2 [Dimitri Obolensky (1918-2001), Professor of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Oxford (1961-1985), author of The Byzantine Commonwealth (1971).]

3 [Al-Sīra al-nabawiyya (The Prophetic Life) of Ibn Isḥāq (d. 768), in the recension of Ibn Hishām (d. 833/828), is one of the earliest Arabic sources for the life of Muhammad; Murūj al-dhahab (Golden Meadows) of al-Mas‘ūdī (d. 956) is one of the great works of medieval Arabic historiography; while Futūḥ al-buldān (The Conquest of the Regions) of al-Balādhurī (d. c. 892) is one of the most valuable Arabic sources for the history of the Arab conquests.]

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Peter Brown

Peter Brown, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, is credited with having created the field of study referred to as late antiquity (250–800 A.D.), the period during which Rome fell, the three major monotheistic religions took shape, and Christianity spread across Europe. 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. He is the author of a dozen books, including Augustine of Hippo (1967, 2000), The World of Late Antiquity (1971), The Cult of the Saints (1982), The Body and Society (1988), Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (1992), Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World (1995), The Rise of Western Christendom (1996, 2003), and Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002).