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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.

1201–1300

The Thirteenth Century

1 work

c. 1271–1276

Latin

The Mirror of Judgement

Speculum Iudiciale

William Durandus · c. 1230–1296

A complete manual of judicial procedure — summons, evidence, witnesses, appeals — for church courts, which by then handled marriage, wills, and much else.

Western · Canon lawRead elsewhere