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.
501–600
3 works
c. 583–600
Latin
Leander of Seville · c. 534 – c. 600
A rule written for his own sister Florentina, closing with an unguarded page asking her to pray for him and grieving that their brother died before the conversion; and the sermon preached at Toledo when the Goths came over, which is pure jubilation.
589
Latin
The Third Council of Toledo
King Reccared and the Visigothic nobility renounce Arianism before seventy-two bishops, the Arian books are ordered burned, and the creed is to be sung at every mass — recited, in the Spanish text, with the Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son.
c. 590
Latin
John of Biclaro · c. 540 – c. 621
A continuation of Victor of Tunnuna covering 567 to 590, by a Goth who studied at Constantinople and was exiled for ten years by an Arian king before the conversion he lived to record.
601–700
3 works
c. 615–618
Latin
De Viris Illustribus
Isidore of Seville · c. 560 – 636
Thirty-three short notices continuing the catalogue Jerome began and Gennadius extended, weighted heavily toward Spain and Africa — Leander, Fulgentius, Martin of Braga — with a verdict on each.
c. 624–626
Latin
Isidore of Seville · c. 560 – 636
A history of the barbarian kingdoms of Spain by a Roman bishop who has stopped thinking of them as barbarians, opening with a hymn in praise of Spain herself as the fairest of all lands, and treating the Goths as its rightful and legitimate rulers.
c. 646–657
Latin
Eugenius II of Toledo · d. 657
About a hundred short poems by a reluctant bishop who complains in verse about his own bad health, the noise of the world, and being dragged from a quiet monastery to run the Spanish church — alongside epitaphs, prayers, and a poem on the nightingale.
6 of 1774 works