Abstract
In his massive Through Eye of a Needle (2012), he focused on wealth, particularly its influx into and impact on Christian experiences and church in waning Western empire; emerging Christian upper-class hoped to lay up treasure in heaven through dramatic renunciation of wealth, care of poor, and giving to church. Picking up theme of treasure in heaven, in this volume Brown explores effect of wealth on other world in Western Christianity in 250–650 C.E. Brown is particularly interested in the manner in which imagined joining of heaven and earth through money was held to affect fate of soul in afterlife (ix), informed by his characteristically careful attention to changing social context and religious imagination of afterlife. According to Chapter Five, historiographical writings of Gregory of Tours in late sixth century revealed yet another development in preaching repentance in light of last judgment.
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