History, Scripture, and Authority is the first book-length study of the ninth-century historian Frechulf of Lisieux in any language. It uses the creation of Frechulf's monumental Histories to explore how the past was read and interpreted in Carolingian Europe.

Frechulf's Histories comprise a vast account of the world stretching from its creation through to the seventh century AD, compiled from a wide range of late antique chroniclers and historians. In examining Frechulf's long overlooked historiographical compendium, this book challenges a dominant paradigm within medieval studies of understanding history-writing as an extension of politics and power. By focusing instead on the transmission and reception of the patristic tradition, the
compilation of authoritative knowledge, and the relationship between history and scriptural exegesis, it reveals Frechulf's work to be unexpectedly a rich artefact of Carolingian intellectual culture.