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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 is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire.

ReligionReligion · medium confidenceReligion81 signalsLlm Classifier: Religion -> ReligionGoogle Books: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsAward Category: PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History -> Society & CultureAfrica & the African DiasporaIntellectual History & IdeasEurope & Russia

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History2012WinnerOfficial source
Cundill History PrizeMajor2013FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 45%.