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Through The Eye Of A Needle: Wealth, The Fall Of Rome & The Making Of Christianity In The West, 350-550 AD (2012)

by Peter R.L. Brown(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

069115290X (ISBN13: 9780691152905)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Princeton University Press (NJ/Oxford)

review 1: Brown writes a massive history addressing the force of wealth in Latin Christianity between 300 to 600 AD. As in previous books he's written, Brown is concerned about the power and patronage elements evident in this history. Each chapter focuses on historical personalities (including Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose) and the traditional historiography of Christianity's rise. This book is close to 530 pages and effectively written prose. Not too academic for lay readers, but the notes and sources Brown uses will appeal to historians. Highly recommended, but be ready to mentally ingest many ideas about the topic.
review 2: I was disappointed with this book. I could only recommend it as a resource book. The information isn't clearly presented, is rambling and disjoint... moreed in style, and really a bit of a mess. There's no coherent argument, but it is full of pieces of information that perhaps make up some kind of whole. It's almost like a large number of notes that have been compiled into some kind of order. Of interest perhaps to those writing an essay, looking for information. But otherwise, compared to his other work, recommendable only for university libraries or those with a deep interest in the subject. less

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