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.
601–700
1 work
c. 624–626
Latin
Isidore of Seville · c. 560 – 636
A history of the barbarian kingdoms of Spain by a Roman bishop who has stopped thinking of them as barbarians, opening with a hymn in praise of Spain herself as the fairest of all lands, and treating the Goths as its rightful and legitimate rulers.
901–1000
1 work
951
Georgian
Giorgi Merchule
The life of a monastic founder who cleared forest in the mountains of Tao-Klarjeti and built a dozen houses there, told with unusual attention to landscape, building, and argument with local nobles. It contains the sentence that Georgia is wherever the liturgy is celebrated in Georgian.
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