To study the position of the holy man in Late Roman society is to risk telling in one's own
words a story that has often been excellently told before. In vivid essays, Norman Baynes has …

… As Peter Brown notes in the following pages, a sharp distinction between the religious
experi… The name of Peter Brown adds new honor to this lectureship. It is also an honor for the …

The Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it
was a tentative and piecemeal process. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors …

… These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider … Brown's reflections on the
significance of these exciting new … book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his …

When humans talk with humans, they are able to use implicit situational information, or context,
to increase the conversational bandwidth. Unfortunately, this ability to convey ideas does …

Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late
antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops as they wrested influence from …

… Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges
… Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes …

Perhaps the most significant feature of the end of paganism in Rome is that we do know
about it; in the words of one of the earliest students of this death of a religion, Beugnot, ‘L'histoire …

We address the problem of predicting a word from previous words in a sample of text. In
particular, we discuss n-gram models based on classes of words. We also discuss several …

A method for estimating the parameters of hidden Markov models of speech is described.
Parameter values are chosen to maximize the mutual information between an acoustic …