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
1 work
c. 950–961
Greek
Anonymous, commissioned by Constantine VII
History from 813 to the writer's own day, commissioned by an emperor about his own dynasty — so the iconoclast emperors are monsters, Michael III a drunk, and Basil I, who murdered his way to the throne, a providential deliverer.
1601–1700
1 work
1649
English
Attributed to Charles I and John Gauden
Meditations and prayers presented as the king's own, published within days of his execution and showing him at prayer amid his troubles.
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