Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… Augustine, Brown emphasizes the importance of patronage and community in the famous bishop's career and suggests that … of wealth as the first step towards an ideal, heavenly community (180). Paulinus was the first Roman senator to … (522-6). Brown characterizes this as the shift toward medieval Christianity. As expected from Peter Brown, this book …