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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

The remains of the column of St Simeon Stylites at Qalat Sem’an, Syria. [Getty Images]
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  • The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750

    Peter Brown, introduced by Christopher Kelly

    The Folio Society, pp. 179

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