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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

c. 1272–1275

Latin

The Life of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu

Geoffrey of Beaulieu · d. c. 1274

The king's confessor for twenty years describes his penances, his care for lepers and the poor, and his habit of hearing legal petitions himself under an oak.

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