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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1577 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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 850–900

Old English

The Old English Martyrology

Anonymous

Short prose entries for saints through the year, each giving the day, the manner of death, and often a concrete detail found in no other source.

Anglo-Saxon · Martyrology

901–1000

The Tenth Century

1 work

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

1501–1600

The Sixteenth Century

1 work

1520

Latin

Fourteen Consolations

Martin Luther · 1483–1546

Written for a dangerously ill elector as a replacement for the fourteen holy helpers: seven images of evil and seven of good, to be set before a suffering mind.

Lutheran · Devotional