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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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

841–843

Latin

The Histories

Nithard · c. 800–845

A grandson of Charlemagne records the civil war among his grandsons, and quotes the Strasbourg oaths verbatim in both the Romance and Germanic vernaculars.

Western · HistoryRead elsewhere

1301–1400

The Fourteenth Century

1 work

c. 1362–1369

Greek

The Histories

John VI Kantakouzenos · c. 1292–1383

A memoir by an emperor who won a civil war, abdicated, became a monk, and then explained at length why everything he did had been necessary.

Byzantine · HistoryRead elsewhere