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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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 810–814

Latin

In Praise of the Holy Cross

De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis

Rabanus Maurus · c. 780–856

Twenty-eight figure poems in which letters picked out within a grid of text form crosses, figures, and shapes that can be read as separate verses.

Western · PoetryRead elsewhere