![]() | Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church ca. 30–600; Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History; Rome -- History -- Empire 284–476; A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire 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 . |
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