This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books
of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with
the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely popular
and standard work of reference on antiquity throughout the Middle
Ages and beyond. Its importance lay in the fact that Orosius was
the first Christian author to write not a church history, but
rather a history of the secular world interpreted from a Christian
perspective. This approach gave new relevance to Roman history in
the medieval period and allowed Rome's past to become a valued part
of the medieval intellectual world. The structure of history and
methodology deployed by Orosius formed the dominant template for
the writing of history in the medieval period, being followed, for
example, by such writers as Otto of Freising and Ranulph Higden.
Orosius's work is therefore crucial for an understanding of early
Christian approaches to history, the development of universal
history, and the intellectual life of the Middle Ages, for which it
was both an important reference work and also a defining model for
the writing of history.
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