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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

801–900

The Ninth Century

2 works

830–882

Latin

The Annals of Saint-Bertin

Prudentius of Troyes and Hincmar of Reims

The year-by-year record of the West Frankish kingdom kept by two bishops in succession: the division of the empire, the Viking fleets on the Seine and the Loire, the Gottschalk affair, and the embassy of 839 whose members called themselves Rhos and turned out to be Swedes.

Western · AnnalsJeremiahDanielPsalms

begun c. 890, continued to 1154

Old English

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anonymous

Year-by-year annals kept at several monasteries, from Julius Caesar to the twelfth century, terse for most years and vivid in crisis.

Anglo-Saxon · Chronicle