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Explicitly quoted - 'Peter Brown in his book, The Rise of Western Christendom' - when discussing the Carolingian scholar-administrators as 'the first technocrats of Europe.'

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Described as 'the great historian of late antiquity' and quoted for his memorable phrase about the Pope hearing 'the crash of falling masonry' as ancient Rome crumbled around him

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Referenced as 'the great historian' whose early work was about the holy man in late antiquity. A quote from Brown about Patrick's originality is provided: 'was it no one within Western Christendom had thought such thoughts as these before.'