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.
301–400
1 work
c. 380–430
Syriac
Liber Graduum
Anonymous
Thirty discourses distinguishing the upright, who keep the commandments while married and working, from the perfect, who renounce everything — and insisting both are genuinely Christian.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1330–1361
Middle High German
Johannes Tauler · c. 1300–1361
Preaching on the ground of the soul, on suffering as the shortest road, and on the ordinary work of a cook or a farmhand as no less a vocation than choir.
1601–1700
1 work
1609
French
Francis de Sales · 1567–1622
Written for a married noblewoman: devotion suited to the soldier, the tradesman, the married woman, and the widow, since a life of prayer belongs in the world.
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