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These five seventh-century religious texts cast light not only on the development of the church in Visigothic Spain and its internal politics but also on its relationship with the Visigothic state and the history of that state itself, particularly in the period when the Visigoths changed their adherence from Arian to Trinitarian Christianity. As the events they cover are not contemporary they also allow us to see how the Visigothic Church port...

Orosius'" Seven Books of History against the Pagans" provide a Christian interpretation of history from God's creation of the world to the period of the Gothic attacks on the Roman Empire in the early fifth century. By the end of that century, Orosius' work was already a classic and its Christian perspective ensured that it remained an immensely popular and standard work of reference on antiquity in the medieval world. Available now in English...