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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1277 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.

501–600

The Sixth Century

1 work

c. 573–594

Latin

The History of the Franks

Decem Libri Historiarum

Gregory of Tours · c. 538–594

Ten books from creation to the author's own day, dominated by the murderous politics of the Merovingian royal family, told in a Latin the author apologises for.

Western · History

601–700

The Seventh Century

1 work

c. 660

Latin

The Chronicle of Fredegar

Anonymous

A Frankish world chronicle continuing Gregory of Tours, in Latin so broken that historians use it to study the emergence of the Romance languages.

Western · Chronicle