Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

@inproceedings{Brown2012ThroughTE,
  title={Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD},
  author={Peter Robert Lamont Brown},
  year={2012}
}
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  • Published 2 September 2012
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