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These included: Gregory the Great's Cura Pastoralis, a manual for priests on how to conduct their duties, which became the Hierdeboc ('Shepherd-book') [66] in Old English; Boethius' De Consolatione philosophiae (the Froforboc or 'book of consolation'); [67] and the Soliloquia of Saint Augustine (known in Old English as the Blostman or 'blooms ...
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events.The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.
The Old English Boethius: Old English 18 One Hundred Latin Hymns Medieval Latin 17 The Vulgate Bible, Volume V: The Minor Prophetical Books and Maccabees Medieval Latin 16 The History: Michael Attaleiates: Byzantine Greek 15 Old English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic Old English 14 Apocalypse: Pseudo-Methodius.
The Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE, ink and pigments on papyrus, in the British Museum (London). After extracting the marrow from the stems of papyrus reed, a series of steps (humidification, pressing, drying, gluing, and cutting) produced media of variable quality, the best being used for sacred writing. [10]
This is a list of notable codices. For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.) More modern works that include "codex" as part of ...
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...