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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1577 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.

1401–1500

The Fifteenth Century

1 work

c. 1468–1475

Old Church Slavonic

The Journey Beyond Three Seas

Afanasy Nikitin · d. c. 1475

A merchant from Tver travels to India and records, with real distress, that he has lost track of the Christian calendar and cannot keep the fasts or Easter.

Rus · Travel