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.
901–1000
2 works
c. 974
Latin
Vita Mathildis Reginae Antiquior
Anonymous
Written for her grandson within a decade of her death: the widow of Henry the Fowler, her almsgiving, her monastic foundations, her quarrel with her sons over what she was giving away, and her deathbed distribution of everything left.
c. 1000
Latin
Epitaphium Adelheidae
Odilo of Cluny · c. 962 – 1049
The abbot of Cluny on an empress he had known: imprisoned by one king, married to another, twice regent, a founder of monasteries, and in old age travelling between courts trying to keep her son and grandson from war.
2 of 1774 works