The Library
1780 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
3 works
c. 890–896
Old English
Alfred the Great · 849–899
Gregory's handbook for bishops translated into English by a king, with a preface lamenting that learning had so decayed that few south of the Humber could understand Latin.
c. 885–899
Old English
Domboc
Alfred the Great · 849 – 899
A West Saxon law code prefaced by the Ten Commandments, chapters of Exodus, and the apostolic decree of Acts 15 in English, after which Alfred explains that Christ came not to break the law but to fulfil it, and that the golden rule is the one judgement a man needs.
893
Latin
Asser · d. c. 909
A Welsh bishop's account of the king he served, including the illness that plagued him, his late acquisition of Latin, and his reading aloud with his children.
3 of 1780 works