With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium. "Peter Brown's fans (no other word seems adequate) will cheer this collection of previously but disparately published pieces (here provided with bibliographical updatings), with their magisterial learning, illuminating insight, and keen collation of the religious and the social."--Harold Remus, "Religious Studies Review Peter Brown is Professor of History at Princeton University and author of, among other works, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography and The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity ; he is General Editor of the series, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage , published by the University of California Press.