Peter R.L. Brown Quote

We find the same rituals, if with slightly different names: the giving of alms (the mñtnae), the giving of a Eucharistic oblation (the prosphora), the celebration of a love feast (the agapé: the Greek and Coptic equivalent of the refrigerium), and the making of memory (r̄meue) on behalf of the one who comes out from the body.51

Peter R.L. Brown

We find the same rituals, if with slightly different names: the giving of alms (the mñtnae), the giving of a Eucharistic oblation (the prosphora), the celebration of a love feast (the agapé: the Greek and Coptic equivalent of the refrigerium), and the making of memory (r̄meue) on behalf of the one who comes out from the body.51

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About Peter R.L. Brown

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity, and is often regarded as the inventor of said field. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, and the relation between religion and society.