Andrew Fear Orosius (Paperback) Translated Texts for Historians (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: OrosiusCondition: NewEAN: 9781846312397ISBN: 9781846312397Publisher: Liverpool University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/13/2010Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 147mmItem Weight: 595gContributor: Andrew Fear (Translated with commentary by)Author: Andrew FearLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Seven Books of History against the PagansDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Translated Texts for HistoriansRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

Price: 78.91 USD

Location: GU14 0GT

End Time: 2025-01-20T16:44:43.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD