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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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.

901–1000

The Tenth Century

1 work

c. 906

Latin

Two Books on Synodical Causes

Libri Duo de Synodalibus Causis

Regino of Prüm · c. 840–915

A handbook for bishops on visitation, with the questions to be put to each parish, and a famous canon dismissing as delusion the belief that women ride out at night with Diana.

Western · Canon law

1401–1500

The Fifteenth Century

1 work

1459

Latin

The General Reform

Reformatio Generalis

Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464

A programme handed to the pope proposing that reform begin at Rome and work outward, with visitors sent to every province and no exemptions for anyone.

Western · Reform proposal