The Library
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.
401–500
1 work
c. 495–498
Latin
De Vita Contemplativa
Julianus Pomerius · d. c. 498
Three books for bishops rather than monks: whether a pastor may own property, how to preach, when to withhold the sacrament, and whether the contemplative life is possible for a man who spends his days on other people's business.
501–600
1 work
c. 501–513
Latin
Ennodius of Pavia · c. 474 – 521
A bishop of Pavia writing in prose so ornamented that readers have complained about it for fifteen hundred years. The life of his predecessor shows a bishop ransoming captives from Burgundians and Goths and negotiating with kings, because there was nobody else left to do it.
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