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Orosius
Orosius, or Paulus Orosius, was a Christian priest and historian from Roman Hispania and a pupil of Augustine of Hippo. His Seven Books of History against the Pagans, written around 417, surveys world history to argue that disasters had been worse before Christianity. Widely used as a textbook in the Middle Ages, it was translated into Old English in the reign of Alfred the Great with added geographical material.
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