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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.

501–600

The Sixth Century

1 work

c. 570–579

Latin

Rules for an Honest Life

Formula Vitae Honestae

Martin of Braga · c. 520 – 579

A short handbook of the four cardinal virtues for a Suevic king, drawn almost entirely from Seneca and containing not one scriptural quotation or Christian doctrine — written by a bishop, for a recent convert, as the way in.

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