This historian once descr
This historian once described his profession's relation to anthropologists with the African saying "They are our enemies. We marry them". He incorporated Foucauldian ideas into his work The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, while his most recent work traces the trajectory of the Church as the distributor of wealth to the poor into the Church as the treasury for the poor in heaven and is called Through the Eye of a Needle. His first major work was a biography of Augustine of Hippo, and he also penned (*) The Cult of the Saints. Other works of his focus on the role as mediators and advocates that Holy Men provided in Near Eastern communities, and his most famous work begins with the sentence "This book is a study of social and cultural change", echoing the 'continuity and change' concept that dominates his field. For 10 points, name this Princeton scholar who wrote The World of Late Antiquity and who both founded the field of Late Antiquity and is its most prominent living scholar.
This historian once described his profession's relation to anthropologists with the African saying "They are our enemies.
Peter {Brown}