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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.

601–700

The Seventh Century

1 work

c. 628–638

Greek

The Histories

Theophylact Simocatta

The reign of Maurice and the Balkan and Persian wars, written in prose so mannered that later Byzantines used it as a style exercise. It opens with a dialogue in which Philosophy introduces History, and contains the earliest Western notice of the Turks and of China.

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