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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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 850

Latin

On the Assumption of the Virgin

Cogitis Me

Paschasius Radbertus, under Jerome's name · c. 785 – c. 865

Written to nuns at Soissons as if by Jerome, and unusually careful: the church may celebrate Mary's passing, but scripture says nothing about a bodily assumption and the apocryphal accounts of it are not to be trusted. What is certain is her glory; the manner of it is not.

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