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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

1494

German

The Ship of Fools

Das Narrenschiff

Sebastian Brant · 1457–1521

A hundred and twelve kinds of folly, each given a woodcut and a verse — the book collector who cannot read, the priest who cannot preach, the man who plans to repent later.

Western · SatireRead elsewhere