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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.

901–1000

The Tenth Century

1 work

c. 982–993

Latin

The Life of Ulrich of Augsburg

Gerhard of Augsburg

The bishop who organised the defence of Augsburg against the Magyars in 955 and rode out among the walls in his stole, written by a priest of his household who had watched him work.

Western · BiographyActs2 TimothyMatthewPsalms

1301–1400

The Fourteenth Century

1 work

c. 1368

Greek

The Life of Gregory Palamas

Philotheos Kokkinos · c. 1300–1379

The life of the hesychast theologian by the patriarch who canonised him nine years after his death, written to settle the controversy for good.

Byzantine · Biography