Orosius: Seven Books of History Against the Pagans - Paperbackby Andrew T. Fear (Commentaries by), Andrew T. Fear (Translator) This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely popular and standard work of reference on antiquity throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. Its importance lay in the fact that Orosius was the first Christian author to write not a church history,