Incarnation and Empire: Orosius and the Exegesis of History
Graeme Ward
The birth of Christ in the reign Augustus, first Roman emperor, is central moment <italic>Histories</italic>, where Part I’s narrative concludes and II’s begins. This chapter explores this critical juncture through lens Frechulf’s reception Orosius’s <italic>Seven Books Histories against Pagans</italic>. Modern historians late antiquity have long separated perception church empire from that his more illustrious teacher, Augustine, scholars Carolingian Empire inherited distinction. queries implications labelling intellectuals ‘Augustinian’ or otherwise. It locates Orosius not within modern reconstruction fifth-century debates about <italic>ecclesia</italic> but rather ninth-century culture scriptural exegesis.
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