The Library
1577 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.
401–500
1 work
c. 450
Syriac
Nestorius · c. 386–c. 451
A long self-defence written in exile under a pseudonym, arguing that the author had never taught what he was condemned for and welcoming Leo's Tome as his own position.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1362–1369
Greek
John VI Kantakouzenos · c. 1292–1383
A memoir by an emperor who won a civil war, abdicated, became a monk, and then explained at length why everything he did had been necessary.
1501–1600
2 works
1539
Latin
John Calvin · 1509–1564
An answer to a cardinal's courteous invitation to Geneva to return to Rome, arguing that the reformers left not the church but its corruptions, and imagining the last judgement.
1562
Latin
John Jewel · 1522–1571
A defence arguing that the English church has not innovated but returned to the doctrine of scripture and the first six centuries, and that Rome is the departure.
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