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The Guru of Late Antiquity speaks again

A review of The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750, by Peter Brown. Brown called them essays but each chapter is in fact an inspired riff on a theme

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750 Peter Brown, introduced by Christopher Kelly

The Folio Society, pp.179, £34.95

Nearly 50 years ago we made our way into an inner place, a semi-subterranean room, in a peculiar college. A smallish, round-faced man was beginning to give tongue. Each week he drew multi-coloured patterns in the air, words flitting about like luminous bats in a night sky. We sat bewitched.

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