DePalma Digeser on Brown, 'Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD'
Peter Brown. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 792 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15290-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-16177-8.
Reviewed by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (University of California, Santa Barbara) Published on H-HRE (May, 2016) Commissioned by Tryntje Helfferich