The Library
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.
101–200
1 work
c. 198–203
Greek
Stromateis
Clement of Alexandria · c. 150–c. 215
Deliberately unsystematic notebooks arguing that philosophy was God's covenant with the Greeks as the law was with the Jews, and sketching the true gnostic — the mature Christian whom knowledge makes loving rather than superior.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1125–1130
Latin
Hugh of Saint Victor · c. 1096–1141
What to read and in what order, dividing all knowledge into theoretical, practical, mechanical, and logical, and insisting the mechanical arts belong in the scheme.
1201–1300
3 works
c. 1250
Latin
Robert Kilwardby · c. 1215–1279
A map of all the sciences and their relations to one another, written for students entering the arts faculty and needing to know what they were studying.
1256–1259
Latin
Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate
Thomas Aquinas · 1225–1274
Twenty-nine questions from public disputations on truth, knowledge, conscience, providence, and the human mind's grasp of God.
1276–1292
Latin
Henry of Ghent · c. 1217–1293
Answers to any question the audience chose to raise, twice yearly for fifteen years, on everything from divine illumination to whether a bishop may keep a plurality of benefices.
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