The Medieval Church · c. 1375
The Book of Vices and Virtues
Anonymous
What it is
An English version of a French treatise on the commandments, the creed, the seven sins, and the gifts of the Spirit, written for lay readers.
Why it lasted
Part of the wave of vernacular religious instruction that made lay literacy in English a religious question as well as a social one.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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