The Library
1693 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.
601–700
1 work
c. 630
Greek
Thalassius the Libyan · 7th century
Four hundred brief sentences on the ascetic life addressed to a fellow monk, closely related to the work of his friend Maximus.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1125–1136
Latin
Guigo I · 1083–1136
Private notes of extraordinary bleakness and precision on self-deception, on wanting to be thought good, and on the difference between loving God and loving one's feelings about God.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1220–1226
Latin
Francis of Assisi · 1181/82–1226
Twenty-eight short sayings on obedience, on knowledge that puffs up, on the friar who is disturbed by anything at all, and on true and perfect joy.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1349–1350
Greek
Gregory Palamas · 1296–1359
A compressed summary of his whole theology — cosmology, the human person as image, the distinction of essence and energies — in short numbered chapters.
1601–1700
1 work
1693
English
William Penn · 1644–1718
Maxims on marriage, money, government, and death, written in a period of political disgrace by the founder of Pennsylvania.
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