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.
401–500
1 work
c. 407
Greek
Ad eos qui scandalizati sunt
John Chrysostom · c. 347 – 407
Written in exile for those whose faith his own downfall had shaken. If a bishop can be deposed by intrigue and the church left to men who bought their sees, where is providence? Chrysostom answers that God's government is not legible from inside a single lifetime, and that scandal is a wound taken by the one who takes it.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1132
Latin
Historia Calamitatum
Peter Abelard · 1079–1142
A letter of consolation to a friend recounting his own career: the humiliation of his teachers, the affair with Heloise, his castration, the burning of his book, and his flight from one monastery after another.
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