The Library
1577 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.
1101–1200
2 works
1179
Latin
The Third Lateran Council
Twenty-seven canons requiring a two-thirds majority for papal elections, a free school in every cathedral, and measures against usury, Cathars, and lepers' exclusion from churches.
c. 1191–1197
Latin
Verbum Abbreviatum
Peter the Chanter · d. 1197
Practical moral theology on usury, tithes, luxury, the ordeal, and the duties of the powerful, arguing that too much subtle disputation starves the pastoral life.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1222–1225, revised 1234
Latin
Raymond of Peñafort · c. 1175–1275
A confessor's manual sorting sins by kind and circumstance, with detailed treatment of usury, marriage, restitution, and what to do about a penitent who cannot pay back what he stole.
1401–1500
2 works
c. 1425–1444
Italian
Bernardino of Siena · 1380–1444
Sermons preached in town squares for hours at a stretch and taken down verbatim by listeners — on usury, on gossip, on family life, on the holy name of Jesus.
c. 1440–1454
Latin
Summa Theologica Moralis
Antoninus of Florence · 1389–1459
Moral theology for a commercial city, treating banking, exchange, partnership, wages, and the just price with the detail of someone who heard merchants' confessions.
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