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.
1301–1400
2 works
c. 1305–1330
Greek
Semeioseis Gnomikai
Theodore Metochites · 1270–1332
A hundred and twenty essays on philosophy, the limits of knowledge, the vanity of political office, and the author's own fall from power into exile.
c. 1340
Latin
Exigit Ordo Executionis
Nicholas of Autrecourt · c. 1299–1369
An argument that nothing can be demonstrated beyond the principle of non-contradiction — not causation, not substance, not other minds — leaving only probability.
1501–1600
1 work
c. 1563; published 1937
Latin
Sebastian Castellio · 1515–1563
An argument that many scriptural questions are genuinely obscure, that certainty is not required for salvation, and that doubt is a discipline rather than a sin.
1601–1700
1 work
1697
French
Pierre Bayle · 1647–1706
A biographical dictionary whose footnotes swallow the entries, raising sceptical difficulties about miracles, providence, and the problem of evil at every turn.
4 of 1774 works