c. 996–1002
Old English
Lives of Saints
Ælfric of Eynsham · c. 955–c. 1010
Saints' lives in rhythmical alliterative prose for the feasts kept by monks, including English saints alongside the martyrs of the early church.
Anglo-Saxon · Hagiography
901–1000
The Tenth Century
1 work
1501–1600
The Sixteenth Century
1 work
1583
Spanish
The Names of Christ
De los Nombres de Cristo
Luis de León · 1527–1591
Three friars by a river discuss the names scripture gives Christ — shepherd, mountain, father of the age to come — in prose of great deliberate beauty.
Western · Dialogue
1601–1700
The Seventeenth Century
1 work
1651
English
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
Jeremy Taylor · 1613–1667
How to prepare for death across a whole life rather than at the end of one, written after the deaths of his patron's wife and his own sons.
Anglican · Devotional