Traveler, do you not know how a poet can live beyond the grave?
You stand and read this verse: it is I, then, who am speaking.
Reading this work aloud, your living voice is mine.

-a tombstone epithet quoted by Possidius, Life of Augustine
 

Works by Peter Brown:

• Poverty and leadership in the later Roman Empire, 2002.



• Augustine of Hippo: a biography, 2000.



• Late antiquity, 1998. Originally published as "L'antiquité tardive" in Histoire de la vie privée, vol. 1, De l'Empire romain à l'an mil, Editions du Seuil, c1985.



• The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, 200-1000 A.D., 1996.



• Authority and the sacred: aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman world, 1995.



• Power and persuasion in late antiquity: towards a Christian empire, 1992.



• The world of late antiquity: AD 150-750, 1989.



• The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity, 1988.



• Society and the holy in late antiquity, 1982.



• The cult of the saints: its rise and function in Latin Christianity, 1981.



• The making of late antiquity, 1978.



• Religion and society in the age of Saint Augustine, 1972.



• The world of late antiquity, A.D. 150-750, 1971.



• Augustine of Hippo; a biography, 1967.

Volumes edited by Peter Brown:

• Interpreting late antiquity : essays on the postclassical world, 2001.



• Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world, 1999.