The Story Behind the Historian
Journeys of the Mind is the intellectual autobiography of Peter Brown. I call it an intellectual autobiography because its emphasis throughout is on Professor Brown’s development as a scholar and historian. When his personal life comes into play, it is generally subsumed if not utterly peripheral to the larger subject of the work, which is how, through education and self-cultivation, its author has become one of the most important historians of our time.
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