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
1 work
259
Latin
The martyrs and an editor
A prison diary from Carthage in the year after Cyprian's death, written by the prisoners themselves until the account is finished by a survivor. They record their dreams, their hunger, a quarrel between two of them that had to be healed before they could die, and Flavian's mother asking to be allowed to be proud.
401–500
1 work
c. 445–450
Latin
Quodvultdeus · d. c. 454
Written in exile at Naples by the bishop of Carthage, expelled when the Vandals took the city. It runs through scripture as a series of promises made and kept, and reads the catastrophe that has just happened to his own church as one more chapter rather than as the end.
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