Aeriel Leonard (ed.); Steven Barela (ed.); Neale R. Neelameggham (ed.); Victoria M. Miller (ed.); Domonkos Tolnai (ed.) Springer (2024) Kovakantinen kirja
Leonard G. Ramirez; Yenelli Flores; Maria Gamboa; Isaura González; Victoria Pérez; Magda Ramirez-Castañeda; Cristin Vital University of Illinois Press (2011) Kovakantinen kirja
Leonard G. Ramirez; Yenelli Flores; Maria Gamboa; Isaura González; Victoria Pérez; Magda Ramirez-Castañeda; Cristin Vital University of Illinois Press (2011) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Steven Barela (ed.); Aeriel Leonard (ed.); Petra Maier (ed.); Neale R. Neelameggham (ed.); Victoria M. Miller (ed.) Springer (2024) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Taylor & Francis Ltd Sivumäärä: 172 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2022, 31.01.2022 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
This volume offers a counterbalance to the dismissal that Orosius’s Histories Against the Pagans has suffered in most recent criticism. Orosius is traditionally considered to be a mediocre scholar and an essentially worthless historian. This book takes his literary endeavour seriously, recognizing the unique contribution the Histories made at a crucial moment of debate and uncertainty, where the present was shaped by restructuring the past. The significance of the Histories is recognised intrinsically rather than only in comparison with other texts and authors, principally Augustine of Hippo, Orosius's mentor. The approach of the book is historiographical, exploring the form, purpose, and meaning of the Histories. The themes of divine providence, monotheism, and imperial authority are examined, and the subjects of war and the sack of Rome receive extended analysis. The book foregrounds Orosius's significant historiographical innovations that are seldom explored, such as the subversion of imperial history within a Christian spectrum in the synchronization of the emperor Augustus and Christ. Each chapter contributes to the progression of knowledge about Orosius’s Histories and the wider literary and historiographical culture of disruption that characterised the late fourth and early fifth centuries CE.