Peter Brown Lecture
"A Parting of the Ways: Wealth, Work and Poverty in Early Christian Monasticism"

When:  Thursday, February 12th at 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
Where:  Old Main Chapel at Shippensburg University

Peter Brown, Winner of the 2007 Kluge Prize from the Library of Congress. As both a scholar and a teacher, Peter Brown has worked at the highest level of intensity and creativity for more than 40 years. His books have captivated thousands of readers, and his celebrated lectures and seminars have inspired students and younger scholars around the world.

Peter Brown, a well known historian and winner of the 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award for scholars in the humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will be giving a lecture at Shippensburg University this Thursday, February 12th at 7pm.  The lecture is entitled, "A Parting of Ways: Wealth, Work, and Poverty in Early Christian Monasticism."  It is expected to last until roughly 8:15pm, and will be in the Old Main Chapel on the Shippensburg campus. The event is being sponsored by the Department of History and Philosophy.

Brown is the author of a number of important works, including the St. Augustine biography, "Augustine of Hippo" (1967); "The World of Late Antiquity" (1971), in which he wrote about 200 to 1000 C.E. as a whole new period that had not previously been seen as such and set the agenda for a new field of study; and "The Rise of Western Christendom" (1996), in which he showed the rise of Christianity as the emergence of a new social and intellectual world long before the Renaissance.

For more information, please contact Christine Senecal at (717) 477 1264.