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
c. 200–250
Greek, surviving in Coptic
Anonymous
Peter watches the crucifixion and sees two figures — one being nailed, and one above the cross, glad and laughing — and is told that the living Jesus cannot be touched. It attacks the bishops and deacons as dry canals who call themselves what they are not.
701–800
1 work
c. 755
Latin
Chrodegang of Metz · c. 712–766
A rule for cathedral clergy living in common — shared meals, a daily chapter meeting, a dormitory — without the vow of poverty a monk would take.
801–900
1 work
819
Latin
De Institutione Clericorum
Rabanus Maurus · c. 780–856
What a priest must know: the orders of ministry, the sacraments, the liturgical year, and then a full defence of studying grammar, rhetoric, and the pagan classics.
1001–1100
1 work
c. 1049
Latin
Liber Gomorrhianus
Peter Damian · c. 1007–1072
An unsparing denunciation addressed to the pope concerning sexual misconduct among the clergy and the practice of confessors absolving their own partners.
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