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World-renowned scholar Peter Brown delivered a lecture entitled, "Alms, Work, and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt" on September 29th at 7:00 p.m. in the British Studies Room in Norlin Library.  Peter Brown is known throughout the world for having created the field of study referred to as late antiquity (250-800 A.D.), the period during which Rome fell, the three major monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - took shape, and Christianity spread across Europe. He has taught as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, the University of London, the University of California Berkeley, and Princeton University. He is the author of a dozen books, including  Augustine of Hippo (1967, 2000), The World of Late AntiquityÌý(1971),ÌýThe Body and SocietyÌý(1988),ÌýThe Rise of Western Christendom (1996, 2003), and Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman EmpireÌý(2002).