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The Old English History of the World is a translation and adaptation of the Latin history known as the Seven Books of History against the Pagans , written by the Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410. To counter the pagan... Read Full Overview

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""King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version Of The Compendious History Of The World By 0rosius"" is a historical text translated by Joseph Bosworth. The book is a translation of the Latin text ""Historiae adversus Paganos"" written by Paulus Orosius, a Spanish historian, in the 5th century... Read Full Overview

""King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version Of The Compendious History Of The World By Orosius"" is a historical book edited by Joseph Bosworth. The book is a translation of the original Latin text ""Historiae Adversus Paganos"" by Paulus Orosius, a 5th-century Christian historian. The... Read Full Overview

King Alfred's Orosius is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

Title: A literal English translation, of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the compendious history of the world by Orosius. By J. Bosworth. (An Essay on the geography of King Alfred the Great, taken from his A. S. version of Orosius ... By R. T. Hampson.).

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