11 Facts About Brent Shaw

Brent Donald Shaw was born on May 27,1947 and is a Canadian historian and Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton University.

Brent Shaw then took up a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, which he held until taking up the Andrew Fleming West professorship of Classics at Princeton University in 2004.

In 2012, Brent Shaw was elected a resident member of the American Philosophical Society.

Brent Shaw has written extensively on problems of violence in establishing conditions of peace and order throughout the Roman world, in particular on bandits and brigands, and on sectarian violence.

Brent Shaw later shifted his focus to understanding how early Christians produced sectarian or religious violence by the popularization of images of ideological enemies, and through the mobilization of sentiment using both the idea and the practice of martyrdom.

Brent Shaw has made significant contributions to the understanding of the economic and political integration of North Africa into the Roman Empire, exploring the problem of urbanization, and the economic role of pastoral nomads, as part of this process of integration.

In Bringing in the Sheaves, Brent Shaw explores the relationship between the reaping of cereal crops in the Roman Empire and the ways in which people began thinking about death and vengeance in their social relations.

Brent Shaw has brought his historical knowledge to a wider audience through publications in History Today, The New Republic, the New Left Review, and The New York Review of Books.

Brent Shaw created controversy in 2015, when an article he published on the Journal of Roman Studies argued that Emperor Nero had not, as it is generally believed, persecuted Christians following the Great Fire of Rome.

Brent Shaw responded to Jones in a article in the same journal.

Larry Hurtado was critical of Brent Shaw's argument, dismissing it as "vague and hazy".