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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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

The Twelfth Century

1 work

c. 1173–1175

Latin

The Life of Thomas Becket

William FitzStephen · d. c. 1191

The archbishop's career by a clerk who was present at the murder, prefaced by a famous description of London — its schools, cookshops, and boys skating on bone skates.

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