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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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.

1201–1300

The Thirteenth Century

1 work

1228–1229

Latin

The First Life of Saint Francis

Thomas of Celano · c. 1185–c. 1265

The official life commissioned for the canonisation, written by a friar who had known him, covering the conversion, the crib at Greccio, and the stigmata.

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