The Medieval Church · c. 1098–1101
The Elucidarium
Honorius Augustodunensis · c. 1080–c. 1154
What it is
A pupil asks and a master answers: on God, on creation, on why infants die, on what the damned suffer, on whether the blessed will see their friends in hell.
Why it lasted
The most widely copied theological handbook of the Middle Ages, translated into every major vernacular, and the source of much popular belief about the afterlife.
Where to read it
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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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