Universal History 🗺️

A Universal History is an attempt to identify connections and patterns among events and thereby establishes the coherence of history as a whole.

Or to paraphrase Richard Rohlin (per the medieval worldview of history):

[This] worldview of history is not as a series of accidents and causes but a battle between good and evil in which the most important event has already occurred, namely, the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ

MOCs 🗺️

Go Further

  • Chesteron, GK – The Everlasting Man
  • Lewis, CS – The Discarded Image
  • Holland, Tom – Dominion (Tom Holland is a contemporary historian who wrote this accessible book that reminds readers of the Christian origins of the West.)
  • Fr. Strickland, John – Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was (four volume set) (There is also an accompanying podcast with the same title.)
  • Dr. Baghos, Mario – From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium
  • Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
  • The Anglo-Saxon Genesis
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain
  • Ven. Bede’s History of the English Church
  • The Kebra Negast