All roads lead to Rome? Frechulf of Lisieux, Augustine and Orosius
Graeme Ward
This article considers the influence exerted by Augustine's City of God and Orosius's Histories against Pagans on Carolingian historian, Frechulf Lisieux. In particular, it explores how these two explicitly Roman texts were read understood in ninth century, they turn shaped place Rome its empire within Frechulf's narrative. first half this article, I shall take into account modern discussions Augustine Orosius, which themselves have scholarship Frechulf. The second stresses that for Frechulf, Orosius offered complementary, not contradictory perspectives Christian history Rome's part it.
Early Medieval Europe|Austrian Biographical Dictionary (Austrian Academy of Sciences)