Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex history, showing how the rise of Coptic took place ami...(展开全部)

彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学荣休历史学教授。“古代晚期研究领域的发明者”，权威的奥古斯丁专家，晚期罗马帝国宗教史研究最杰出的历史学家之一。特别关注晚期罗马帝国和早期中世纪欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会之间的关系。著有The Rise of Western Christendom ；The Body and Society ： Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity ；The World of Late Antiquity ：AD 150-750 等。

彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学荣休历史学教授。“古代晚期研究领域的发明者”，权威的奥古斯丁专家，晚期罗马帝国宗教史研究最杰出的历史学家之一。特别关注晚期罗马帝国和早期中世纪欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会之间的关系。著有The Rise of Western Christendom ；The Body and Society ： Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity ；The World of Late Antiquity ：AD 150-750 等。

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their other worldliness ...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their other worldliness ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学历史学荣休教授。他毕业于牛津大学，并曾于伦敦大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。他对古代晚期这一研究领域做出了杰出贡献。他的著作尤其关注罗马帝国晚期和中世纪早期欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会的关系，作品包括：《希波的奥古斯丁》 《古代晚期的世界》《圣徒崇拜》《身体与社会》《西方基督教的崛起》《罗马帝国后期的贫困与领导》。 【译者简介】 王班班，德国海德堡大学“物质文本文化”研究中心助理研究员、古代史与碑铭学系博士研究生，主要研究领域为希腊碑铭学，译有《罗马：一个帝国的故事》。