Graeme Ward is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. His research examines the intellectual culture of early medieval western Europe. Between 2018 and 2021 he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford, and between 2013 and 2017 he was based at the Institute for Medieval Research in Vienna. He has published articles and has edited collected volumes on various aspects of Carolingian history.

• Introduction1: Frechulf and the Carolingian Culture of Compilation2: The Truth of History3: Re-Framing Eusebius-Jerome's Chronicle4: Incarnation and Empire: Orosius and the Exegesis of History5: Christiana Tempora? the Conclusion of the Histories and the Creation of a Patristic Past6: Past and Present in the HistoriesConclusionIndex

What makes History, Scripture, and Authority in the Carolingian Empire truly essential for anyone interested in early medieval historiography or the genre of 'universal history' is Ward's close and enormously insightful reading of a woefully under-read text.

Graeme Ward is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. His research examines the intellectual culture of early medieval western Europe. Between 2018 and 2021 he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford, and between 2013 and 2017 he was based at the Institute for Medieval Research in Vienna. He has published articles and has edited collected volumes on various aspects of Carolingian history.

• Introduction1: Frechulf and the Carolingian Culture of Compilation2: The Truth of History3: Re-Framing Eusebius-Jerome's Chronicle4: Incarnation and Empire: Orosius and the Exegesis of History5: Christiana Tempora? the Conclusion of the Histories and the Creation of a Patristic Past6: Past and Present in the HistoriesConclusionIndex

What makes History, Scripture, and Authority in the Carolingian Empire truly essential for anyone interested in early medieval historiography or the genre of 'universal history' is Ward's close and enormously insightful reading of a woefully under-read text.

Graeme Ward is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. His research examines the intellectual culture of early medieval western Europe. Between 2018 and 2021 he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford, and between 2013 and 2017 he was based at the Institute for Medieval Research in Vienna. He has published articles and has edited collected volumes on various aspects of Carolingian history.

• Introduction1: Frechulf and the Carolingian Culture of Compilation2: The Truth of History3: Re-Framing Eusebius-Jerome's Chronicle4: Incarnation and Empire: Orosius and the Exegesis of History5: Christiana Tempora? the Conclusion of the Histories and the Creation of a Patristic Past6: Past and Present in the HistoriesConclusionIndex

What makes History, Scripture, and Authority in the Carolingian Empire truly essential for anyone interested in early medieval historiography or the genre of 'universal history' is Ward's close and enormously insightful reading of a woefully under-read text.