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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.

1001–1100

The Eleventh Century

1 work

27 November 1095; recorded later

Latin

The Sermon at Clermont

Pope Urban II · c. 1035–1099

The appeal that launched the First Crusade, surviving only in five differing accounts written after the expedition succeeded, each shaped by knowing how it turned out.

Western · SermonRead elsewhere