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.
501–600
1 work
593
Latin
Gregory the Great · c. 540 – 604
Twenty-two sermons on the throne vision and the temple, broken off unfinished when the Lombards reached the walls of Rome. Gregory stops mid-book and tells the congregation he can no longer take pleasure in exposition, because everywhere he looks the city is a ruin and the people gone.
701–800
2 works
c. 780
Latin
Paul the Deacon · c. 720 – c. 799
The Lombard historian's life of the pope who had sent the mission to the English and negotiated with his own people. It carries the story of the dove at Gregory's ear dictating what he wrote, and the account of the slave boys in the Roman market.
c. 787–796
Latin
Paul the Deacon · c. 720–799
The Lombard people from their origins in Scandinavia to the eighth century, told with a storyteller's ear for legend and a courtier's caution.
3 of 1774 works