International Orosian Network

Co-founded by @tigerlilyrocks, @TheOrosian, @CamWachowich, in 2020.
About Orosius & the reception of his works across the centuries. Tweets by @TheOrosian

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Hello #TwitterFriends! Here's a brief introduction of the International Orosian Network.
It was co-founded by @tigerlilyrocks, @CamWachowich and myself, in 2020. The three of us work on Orosius & his reception from different perspectives. 1/x

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Good news:
The Special Issue of the Institute of Classical Studies, "Orosius Through the Ages", is out!!
It's co-edited by @tigerlilyrocks @TheOrosian @CamWachowich. It brings together wonderful papers on Orosius's Historiae & its reception.

https://t.co/Foiy5XaDFK

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Great news:

Prof. Marco Di Branco (Sapienza University of Rome) has won the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Translation for his edition of Kitab Hurushiyush (the Arabic version of Orosius's Historiae). Congratulations!!

https://t.co/t8S1amidLm

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News:

R. Devlin. "Travel, Trade and Theological Debates: Orosius and the Clerical and Lay Christian Community of Braga". Bishops, Community and Authority in Late Roman Society: Northwestern Hispania c. 370-470 C.E.. @AmsterdamUPress 2024: 229-72

https://t.co/Pig0lW7wy1

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New article on the "Italian" version of Orosius's Historiae:

P. Divizia, "Due testimoni parziali delle Historiae adversus paganos di Paolo Orosio secondo il volgarizzamento di Bono Giamboni", Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 140/1, 2024, 257-269.

https://t.co/9pcT1BkVWB

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New book on Orosius (and open access!):

Sonja Ulrich, Die ›Kriegshistoriographie‹ des Orosius
›Krieg‹ als Argumentationsmotiv in einem spätantiken christlichen Geschichtswerk, V&R unipress, Mainz University Press, 2025.

https://t.co/f9nDyrzDWr

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@CamWachowich & Brigid Ehrmantraut co-edited a special issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies on "New approaches to medieval Celtic receptions of Roman historiography".

https://t.co/j5LKDsKPdI

Congrats to both and everyone involved!

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New book (in open access):

M. Di Branco, "Orosius - Seven books of histories against the Pagans (Arabic version). Vol. I: Arabic Text and English Translation", Pisa University Press, 2024.

https://t.co/2wDtqJ4KZh

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#MyXAnniversary

Thank you all for following us during this journey! More to come... 😎���

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Hello #TwitterFriends!

If you have published or are organising an event on Orosius (incl. his reception), tag us!

We'd be delighted to help you spread the word.

#twitterstorians #medievaltwitter #OrosiusThroughTheAges

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With a paper on Orosius. 👇👀

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New book, feat. Orosian contents.

Congrats to Amy Faulkner, Francis Leneghan (a dear friend of our network) and everyone involved!

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The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850–950, eds. Amy Faulkner, Francis Leneghan (@Brepols, June 2024)
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Our featured recent book of the day:

Diego Piay Augusto's "Priscillian: The Life and Death of a Christian Dissenter in Late Antiquity"

Published by @gorgiaspress: https://t.co/MS46dSjUyb

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We warmly welcome submissions to our academic journal 'Transactions @RoyalHistSoc'. Editors invite submissions of articles, commentaries & roundtables.

> More on publishing in TRHS https://t.co/5v53i0SyD0
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[Nathan A. Betz @nathanbetz]

Announcing the details for @TheOrosian's and my session at the Oxford Patristics Conf on the reception of John's Revelation! Featuring all your favorite Apoc ppl, it's booked for Tues and Wed (6-7 Aug) at @UniofOxford's Exam Schools room 15. Put it on your calendar!

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Feat. a new article on Orosius!! 👏

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New publication on Orosius:

Marco Di Branco, ‘Lost in Translation: Some Mistranslations from the so-called Kitāb Hurūšiyūš’ Studia Graeco-Arabica 13 (2023), 157-162.

Open access: https://t.co/2aCzRM7wZP

[Maijastina Kahlos @kahlos67]

Great pleasure to announce that "Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages" ed. by the splendid Katja Ritari, Jan Stenger & William Van Andringa has just been published. The book is open access here: https://t.co/vSAwGlq20G

[Revelation Reception Network (John's Apocalypse) @apocalypsesem]

If you're in Regensburg this month: 6pm, October 25, Elisabeth Manzo (@TheOrosian), "The End of the World is (not) coming: Orosius's revisualization of the Apocalypse of John" https://t.co/v66YuTBvcN

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1 year... Tempus fugit!

Thanks to everyone for supporting us 🎊🎊