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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1693 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.

1101–1200

The Twelfth Century

1 work

c. 1132–1152

Latin

The Aviary

De Avibus

Hugh of Fouilloy · c. 1100–c. 1172

Birds read as figures of the spiritual life — the dove, the hawk, the pelican wounding itself to feed its young — written for lay brothers who could not read easily.

Western · Bestiary