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.
101–200
1 work
c. 165
Greek
Anonymous
The court transcript of Justin's trial before the prefect Rusticus. Asked where the Christians assemble, Justin says he lodges above the baths of a man named Martin and knows of no other meeting place. Six others answer in turn and all are beheaded.
601–700
1 work
655
Greek
Relatio Motionis
Anastasius the Disciple
A transcript taken by Maximus's own disciple. Charged with treason for losing Egypt to the Arabs, he answers the political charges first and then the real one. Told that all the patriarchs have accepted the Typos, he replies that if the whole world communicated with them, he alone would not.
1301–1400
1 work
1326
Latin
Rechtfertigungsschrift
Meister Eckhart · c. 1260–1328
A reply to the inquisitors of Cologne, answering each extracted proposition and insisting that he may have erred but cannot be a heretic, since heresy is a matter of the will.
1401–1500
1 work
1431; nullification trial 1456
Latin
The court of Rouen
The verbatim record of the interrogation of an illiterate peasant girl by university theologians, including her answers about her voices and about whether she was in God's grace.
1601–1700
1 work
1637–1638
English
The New England ministers and Anne Hutchinson's examiners
The trial transcripts of a Boston woman who held meetings to discuss sermons, claimed direct revelation, and was banished from Massachusetts while pregnant.
5 of 1774 works