Poverty & Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lecture) by Peter R.L. Brown

Poverty & Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lecture)

Peter R.L. Brown

176 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of "the poor" as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church ...

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