The first English translation of Orosius was made by I.W.Raymond and published in 1936.\u00a0 It’s probably still in copyright in the USA, unfortunately, which keeps it off the web.\u00a0 A later translation exists in the Fathers of the Church series.<\/p>\n
Someone wrote to me about Orosius today.\u00a0 Apparently he is the first writer to mention the term “Asia minor”.\u00a0 This led me to look again at the copyright.<\/p>\n
When did Raymond die? (he was born in 1898, according to COPAC<\/a>)\u00a0 A google search led me to an obituary in the St. Petersburg Times, August 11, 1964<\/a>:<\/p>\n NEW YORK — Dr Irving Woodworth Raymond, 65, professor of history at Brooklyn college here, died Monday at his home in York Harbor, Maine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Isn’t Google books wonderful?\u00a0 I remarked yesterday how the British Library, in putting newspapers online, made sure to charge for access; Google gives it to us for free, and we all benefit.<\/p>\n Sadly it looks as if his work won’t come out of copyright in the EU (life+70 years) until 2034, by which time I will be dead myself, I suspect.\u00a0 In countries with life+50 years, that reduces to 2014.\u00a0 And I can’t tell you when it comes out of copyright in the US, as I don’t understand the current situation; publication + 95 years, i.e. 2031?<\/p>\n What a mess this copyright law is!\u00a0 Who benefits from keeping this offline?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first English translation of Orosius was made by I.W.Raymond and published in 1936.\u00a0 It’s probably still in copyright in the USA, unfortunately, which keeps it off the web.\u00a0 A later translation exists in the Fathers of the Church series. Someone wrote to me about Orosius today.\u00a0 Apparently he is the first writer to mention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[490,889,1287],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-library","category-information-access","tag-copyright","tag-information-access","tag-patristics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n