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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.

1101–1200

The Twelfth Century

1 work

c. 1112–1125

Latin

The Life of Anselm

Eadmer of Canterbury · c. 1060–c. 1126

A secretary's record of his archbishop's conversation, temper, table talk, and exile, taken down while Anselm was alive and hidden when he ordered it destroyed.

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