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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The World of Late Antiquity

by Peter Brown

A short, richly illustrated survey of the Mediterranean world from about 150 to 750 CE that helped establish late antiquity as a period in its own right. Brown treats the rise of Christianity, the holy man and the Islamic conquests as parts of one long transformation rather than as a story of decline.

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