Peter Robert Lamont Brown · 1971
A historical study examining the cultural and social transformations during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages.
James Marriott praises the book for being a lucid, brilliant, and insightful work on an obscure historical period.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“I picked up this book, The World of Late Antiquity, and Peter Brown, I started tweeting excitedly about how brilliant and lucid and insightful this book was.”
Why: It is a slim book full of thought, brilliant, lucid, and insightful prose about an obscure period of history.
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