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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.

1301–1400

The Fourteenth Century

2 works

c. 1300–1350

Latin

Meditations on the Life of Christ

Meditationes Vitae Christi

Pseudo-Bonaventure

The gospel expanded with imagined detail — what Mary said to the midwife, how Joseph carried the child — and instructions to picture each scene as though present.

Franciscan · DevotionalLukeMatthewRead elsewhere

c. 1348–1374

Latin

The Life of Christ

Vita Christi

Ludolph of Saxony · c. 1295–1378

An enormous meditative life of Christ, gathering patristic comment and asking the reader at every scene to be present in it, to look and to listen.

Western Monastic · DevotionalLukeJohnRead elsewhere