The Library
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.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1147–1155
Old Church Slavonic
Kliment Smoliatich · 12th century
A metropolitan of Kyiv defends himself against the charge of vanity for citing Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, and argues for allegorical reading of scripture.
1601–1700
3 works
c. 1630–1653
French
Juliana Morell · 1594–1653
Devotional writings and a translation with commentary of a monastic rule, by a prodigy who publicly defended theses in philosophy at twelve.
1691
French
Jean Mabillon · 1632–1707
A defence of scholarship as a legitimate monastic work against a Trappist abbot who insisted monks should do manual labour and pray, not read.
1691
Spanish
Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
Juana Inés de la Cruz · 1648–1695
A Mexican nun answers a bishop who told her to give up study, defending a woman's right to learn from scripture, from the fathers, and from her own experience.
4 of 1774 works