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.
201–300
2 works
c. 208–212
Latin
De Resurrectione Carnis
Tertullian · c. 155–c. 220
A defence of the resurrection of the body in its full physicality against those who would spiritualise it, arguing that flesh is the hinge of salvation.
c. 200–250
Greek, surviving in Coptic
Anonymous
The Saviour speaks to Thomas, called his twin, about the fire of lust that keeps souls drunk and bound to visible bodies, and pronounces a long chain of woes on those who hope in the flesh and in the prison that will perish.
1101–1200
2 works
c. 1150–1160
Latin
Causae et Curae
Hildegard of Bingen · 1098–1179
A medical handbook on the humours, digestion, sleep, conception, and remedies, including frank descriptions of sexual physiology from a woman's viewpoint.
c. 1195
Latin
De Miseria Condicionis Humane
Lotario dei Segni · 1160/61–1216
An unrelenting catalogue of human wretchedness — birth, appetite, ambition, decay — written by a cardinal who promised a companion volume on human dignity and never wrote it.
4 of 1774 works