Letters & Sermons

This short work by Martin of Braga serves as an exhortation to leaders, highlighting the necessit...

Speech to the Nuns

The Life of St. Simeon Stylites

Life of St. Pachomius

This is a small collection of the surviving correspondence of Pope Leo IV, bishops of Rome. In a ...

This work from the synod of Pavia presents series of instructions issued by Emperor Louis to his ...

This text addresses the controversy surrounding the condemnation of the 'Three Chapters' within t...

This work by Rabanus the Moor emphasizes the prohibitions against magic, divination, and supersti...

The Augsburg Confession, also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin na...

The Book of Joshua, also called the Samaritan Chronicle, is a Samaritan chronicle so called becau...

The most important single work produced by the Church Fathers on any of the prophetic writings of...

The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James, the Book of James, and the Protoe...

The Life of Sir Thomas More is a biography of the 16th century saint and English statesman best k...

This famous and much loved little treatise, On Cleaving to God, (De Adhaerendo Deo) has always be...

In this short volume, St. Albert the Great outlines and explores the meaning of human destiny. Hi...

On the Nature of Man is a work in the Hippocratic Corpus. On the Nature of Man is attributed to P...

On the Sacred Disease is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written about 400 B.C. Its authorship ...

The Second Helvetic Confession (Latin: Confessio Helvetica posterior) was written by Heinrich Bul...

In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the Fi...

St. Ambrose: Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397; born probably 340, at Trier, Arles, or Lyons; died ...

De Spiritu Sancto. The three books on the Holy Spirit may be considered as a continuation of the ...

It is a history of the Byzantine emperors during the century leading up to Psellos' own time. It ...

St Patrick is a complex figure who continues to fascinate scholars and commentators as his yearly...

The Old English Boethius is an Old English translation adaptation of the sixth-century Consolatio...

The Song of Dermot and the Earl is an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse chronicle written in the early...

¿The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are chronicles of medieva...

This book presents the Hippocrates treatise of the epidemics, followed by an essay on historic ep...

The Mirror of Alchimy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae. Transla...

De Bello Africo is a Latin work continuing Julius Caesar's accounts of his campaigns, De Bello Ga...

In this valuable treatise, Hippocrates suggested to the traveling physicians to look into the sea...

The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Bo...

Thomas More - a public servant who from 1518 served on Henry VIII's Privy Council and later becam...

Saint Augustine was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empi...

The 'Vita Karoli Magni' is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor,...

I have also written a Book on Lying, which though it takes some pains to understand, contains muc...

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (original spelling: 'Tis Pitty Shee's a Who[o]re) is a tragedy written by...

The Defence of the Seven Sacraments (in Latin, Assertio Septem Sacramentorum) is a theological tr...

The ways of alchemy within alchemical manuscripts themselves can be confusing and arcane. Here, i...

Cur Deus Homo? (Why God Man?) is a book written by Anselm of Canterbury in the period of 1094-109...

The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary is an apologetic work of Saint Jerome. It is an answer to...

On the Trinity

De Spectaculis, also known as On the Spectacles or The Shows, is a surviving moral and ascetic tr...

John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known ...

The correspondence in this volume covers St. Cyrpian of Carthage's letter from the period from ap...

Tertullian, the african church father, states his primary thesis that 'The principal crime of the...

Athanasius of Alexandria ( ¿æ¿¿¿ne¿¿¿s ; Greek: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Athanásios Alexandrías; Cop...

The Proslogion (Latin Proslogium; English translation, Discourse on the Existence of God), writte...