Journeys of the MindThe end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half millennium" now known as late antiquity was in fact crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to