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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.

701–800

The Eighth Century

1 work

c. 721; a verse life c. 716

Latin

The Life of Cuthbert

The Venerable Bede · c. 673 – 735

A rewriting of an anonymous Lindisfarne life, with every episode checked against named witnesses. Cuthbert prays all night standing in the North Sea and is dried by two otters; he clears the birds off his barley by talking to them; he asks to be buried where nobody will come looking for him.

Anglo-Saxon · BiographyMatthew1 KingsMarkActs