This volume offers a counterbalance to the dismissal that Orosius's Histories Against the Pagans has suffered in most recent criticism. Orosius is traditionally considered to be a mediocre scholar and an essentially worthless historian but this book takes his literary endeavour seriously, recognising the unique contribution the work represents at a crucial moment of debate and uncertainty. The Histories is recognised as intrinsically valuable rather than of interest as an object of study only in comparison with other texts and authors, Augustine of Hippo, Orosius's mentor, being the standard...