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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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.

1001–1100

The Eleventh Century

1 work

c. 1057–1058

Latin

Three Books Against the Simoniacs

Humbert of Silva Candida · c. 1000–1061

An argument that ordinations bought with money are not merely illicit but void, and that lay rulers have no business investing bishops with ring and staff.

Western · PolemicRead elsewhere