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Article: From Orosius to the 'Historia Silense': Four Essays on Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography of the Iberian Peninsula.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2006
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From Orosius to the 'Historia Silense': Four Essays on Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography of the Iberian Peninsula, ed. David Hook (Bristol: University, of Bristol, 2005), viii + 147 pp. ISBN 0-86292-557-6. 26.00 [pounds sterling]. The four essays are devoted to four distinct points in the history of early Spanish historiography, the Histories of Paulus Orosius in the early fifth century (Andy Fear), the Historiae Gothorum of Isidore of Seville from the 620s (Jamie Wood), depictions of the victory against Islam at the battle of Covadonga in 718 or 722 (David Hook), and the early twelfth-century Historia Silense (John Wreglesworth). The reappraisals of ...