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.
601–700
1 work
c. 640–660
Latin
Fructuosus of Braga · d. c. 665
A severe Visigothic rule from a nobleman who gave away an enormous inheritance to found monasteries across the northwest, with a pact by which the monks bound themselves to the abbot by written contract — and a right of appeal to the bishop if he abused it.
1001–1100
1 work
c. 1085
Latin
Liber ad Gebehardum
Manegold of Lautenbach · c. 1030–c. 1103
A defence of the pope against Henry IV, arguing that a king holds office under something like a contract with his people, and forfeits it if he becomes a tyrant.
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