Peter Brown and the Making of Late Antiquity (entretien avec Peter Brown)

What are the moments and personalities that stand out in your university education? How were your relations with Frenchspeaking colleagues or authors? I owe most in the opening phases of my work to two towering figures: Arnaldo Momigliano and Henri-Irénée Marrou. In 1956, Arnaldo Momigliano was nominated as the director of my dissertation on “The Social and Economic Position of the Roman Senatorial Aristocracy of Italy in the Sixth Century AD.” Although I was a student in Oxford (having recei..