Josephine Quinn

‘Insider and Outsider’

How did Saint Augustine’s African origins and his life among Christians there shape his theology?

The Thrill of Late Antiquity

The historian Peter Brown’s memoir recounts an academic career that has taken him from Oxford to Iran to California, in a nostalgic portrait of twentieth-century academic life that can still offer a primer to young scholars.

Alphabet Politics

What prompted the development of systems of writing?

Ravenna Between East and West

It has been a barbarian city, a holy city, a woman’s city, and a city ruled by Romans, Huns, Goths, Greeks, and bishops.

Mothers and Emperors

Caesar Bloody Caesar

In Rome, as in Gaul, human rights were nonexistent, and life was cheap