OROSIUS, PAULUS

ōrōˈshēəs, c.385–420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian, b. Tarragona, Spain or Braga, Portugal. He went to see St. Augustine (c.413) and wrote, on request, a summary of the errors of Priscillian and of Origen. Augustine then sent him to Palestine to warn St. Jerome of the menace of Pelagianism. Unable to return to Spain, which was overrun by the Vandals, Orosius remained in Africa, where he completed the Seven Books of History against the Pagans (tr. by I. W. Raymond, 1936), which had been undertaken to continue the thrust of Augustine's City of God. The work became a kind of textbook of universal history for the Middle Ages; it treats world history as a concrete proof of the apocalyptic visions of the Bible. King Alfred translated it into Anglo-Saxon.

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The Seven Books of History against the Pagans
Book by Roy J. Deferrari, Paulus Orosius; Catholic University of America Press, 1964
Subjects: Apologetics--Early Works To 1800, Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600, History, Ancient--Early Works To 1800, World History--Early Works To 1800
...Against the Pagans . The Apology of Paulus Orosius, translated with Introduction...pp. 337-344. Kruger, G. Orosius, in Geschichte der romischen Literatur...Compendious History of the World by Orosius London 1859 . Davids, J. A...
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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
...1989. Lisa D. Maugans Driver OROSIUS, PAULUS (early fifth century A.D.) A priest and native of Braga, Orosius was commissioned by *Augustine...from a Christian perspective. Orosius first appeared in 414 when he traveled...
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Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia
Book by Allan D. Fitzgerald, John Cavadini, Marianne Djuth, James J. O'Donnell, Frederick Van Fleteren; W.B. Eerdmans, 1999
Subjects: Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo--Encyclopedias
...1979): 81-95; OCon- nell, 1987. LAURA HOLT Orosius, Paulus (b. ca. 380-85). A Spanish presbyter, born probably...Braga) in northwest Spain circa 380-85, Paulus Orosius ar- rived suddenly at Hippo in 414, inspired, according...
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Plutarch's Sertorius: A Historical Commentary
Book by C. F. Konrad; University of North Carolina Press, 1994
Subjects: Generals--Rome--Biography, Plutarch--Sertorius, Rome--History--Revolt Of Sertorius, 82-72 B.C, Sertorius--D. 72 B.C, Spain--History--Roman Period, 218 B.C.-414 A.D
...exhibit some vulgate material, though rather less than Orosius, and like the third-century Livy Chronicle are...commovit Hispanias cf. Synkr. 2 21 .2-5 . d. Orosius. Paulus Orosius of Bracara Augusta was presbyter in Spain until A...
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Who's Who in Christianity
Book by Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Christian Biography--Dictionaries
...Origens Interpretation of Scripture 1959 . Orosius Paulus early fifth century Historian. Orosius was a native of Spain, but in the face of...PELAGIUS were upheld at a council in Diospolis, Orosius was compelled to defend his own position...
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journal articles on: Orosius Paulus  - 8 results

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Did King Alfred Actually Translate Anything? the Integrity of the Alfredian Canon Revisited
Journal article by Janet Bately; Medium Aevum, Vol. 78, 2009
Subjects: Alfred the Great, King of England--Ethical aspects, Alfred the Great, King of England--Works, Canon (Literature)--Analysis, Translations--Analysis, Translations--History, Translators (Persons)--Ethical aspects, Translators (Persons)--Works
...also of three other major works: Paulus Orosius Historiarum adversum paganos libri...Old English versions of Bede and Orosius have, on linguistic grounds...surviving manuscripts containing Orosius Historiae closest in type to the...
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Babylon and Anglo-Saxon England
Journal article by Andrew P. Scheil; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 36, 2003
...Capella (bk. 6, ch. 701), Orosius, Aethicus Ister (237-38...century universal history by Paulus Orosius follows the appreciative tone of...and King Ninus after him"). Orosius then goes on to detail the colossal...
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St. Paul's Shipwreck and Early Christianity in Malta
Journal article by Mario Buhagiar; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 93, 2007
Subjects: Christianity, Malta, Poetry, Religion
...Terrarum composed by the Gallician historian and theologian Paulus Orosius (ca. 385-420), the island corresponding to the...themes and references, than with geographic correctness. Paulus Orosiuss Descriptio Terrarum was an important pioneering...
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Is There a Genealogy of Cultures?
Journal article by Raphael Falco; Criticism, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Culture--Origin, Genealogy--Analysis, Literature and society--Analysis, Renaissance--History, Seznec, Jean--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Virgil--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...was theirs by special right," but he adds that "other peoples had long advanced the same claim."(5) He cites Paulus Orosius, a Spaniard who "boasts of being a genuine Roman," as well as Gregory of Tours and Isidore of Seville who saw...
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Bishop Lucas of Túy and the Latin Chronicle Tradition in Iberia
Journal article by Bernard F. Reilly; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 93, 2007
...Latin west above all by the immensely popular work in the Middle Ages of the Iberian protege of Saint Augustine, Paulus Orosius, whose history was completed in A.D. 418. In the Iberian Peninsula the genre received its predominant form with...
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encyclopedia articles on: Orosius Paulus  - 2 results

 
 
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Orosius, Paulus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OROSIUS, PAULUS oro she s, c.385 420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian...Pelagianism. Unable to return to Spain, which was overrun by the Vandals, Orosius remained in Africa, where he completed the Seven Books of History against...
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History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...universal history, which found some inspiration in St. Augustines City of God; it was outstandingly illustrated by Paulus Orosius and continued by such lesser men as Isidore of Seville . The other was the chronicle, ranging from the crude and...


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