In 2002 the influential scholar of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown, published a series of lectures as a monograph titled Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman E
If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the
A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a came