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.
901–1000
1 work
c. 906
Latin
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.
1401–1500
1 work
1486–1487
Latin
Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer · c. 1430–1505
A manual arguing that witchcraft is real, that it is chiefly a crime of women, and setting out how to identify, interrogate under torture, and execute the accused.
1601–1700
2 works
1693
English
Cotton Mather · 1663–1728
A defence of the Salem trials written at the court's request, warning against spectral evidence while justifying the convictions it had produced.
1700
English
Robert Calef · 1648–1719
A Boston merchant's attack on the Salem proceedings and on the ministers who supported them, printed in London because no Boston press would touch it.
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