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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.

1101–1200

The Twelfth Century

1 work

c. 1195

Latin

On the Misery of the Human Condition

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.

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