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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.

1401–1500

The Fifteenth Century

1 work

1453

Latin

On the Vision of God

De Visione Dei

Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464

Written for monks with a painting whose eyes follow every viewer: an exercise in which each brother sees the gaze fixed on him alone, and learns from it how God sees.

Western · MysticalRead elsewhere