-
Mesrop Mashtots, Sahak Partev, and associates · 405 · Scripture
A foundational work of Armenian literature and one of antiquity's great vernacular Bible translations, this version covers the complete Christian Bible and stands at the beginning of written Armenian letters, following the…
Original language
-
Prudentius · 405 · Poem
The Peristephanon, or "Crowns of Martyrdom," stands as Prudentius's masterwork of Christian Latin poetry, composed around 405 CE during the height of his literary career. Writing in an era when Christianity had…
-
Prudentius · 405 · Poem
The Cathemerinon, or "Daily Round," is a collection of twelve liturgical hymns composed by the Spanish Christian poet Prudentius around 405 CE. Writing during the final decades of the Western Roman Empire's…
-
Easter Verses Carmen 25 - Versus Paschales
Paulinus of Nola · 405 · Poem
Carmen 25, known as the Versus Paschales or Easter Verses, represents one of Paulinus of Nola's finest liturgical compositions, written around 405 CE for the Easter celebration at his basilica in Nola.…
-
Augustine of Hippo · 405 · Treatise
Augustine wrote this practical manual on Christian instruction around 405 in response to a request from Deogratias, a deacon in Carthage who had grown discouraged in his catechetical work. Deogratias complained that…
FreeOriginal language
-
Prudentius · 405 · Poem
The Praefatio stands as Prudentius's autobiographical preface to his collected works, written around 405 when the Spanish poet was fifty-seven years old. Composed as he gathered his Christian poetry into a unified…
-
Rufinus of Aquileia · 405–406 · Book
The Recognitiones represents Rufinus of Aquileia's Latin translation and adaptation of a complex Greek romance novel centered on the apostle Peter, completed around 405–406 during the final years of his life. The…
-
Jerome · 406 · Treatise
For readers interested in the cult of relics, vigils and clerical celibacy as they stood around 400, and in Jerome at his most abusive; written in one night and short.
FreeOriginal languageDemanding
-
Jerome · 407 · Commentary
For students of Daniel and of the early church's reading of prophecy: Jerome answering the pagan Porphyry, who dated Daniel to the Maccabean age; Archer's complete English is free to read.
FreeOriginal languageHard
-
Jerome · 408–410 · Commentary
Jerome's Commentary on Isaiah represents the culmination of the great translator's exegetical work, composed between 408 and 410 during his final years in Bethlehem. Written as the Roman Empire convulsed under barbarian…
Original languageHard
-
Jerome · 410–414 · Commentary
For students of Jerome's last years: fourteen books begun as the news of Rome's sack arrived in 410, whose prefaces record the shock; Latin only, the modern English (Scheck) being in copyright.
Original language
-
Cyril of Alexandria · 410–444 · Letter
The letters of Cyril of Alexandria emerge from the theological storms of the early fifth century, when the church wrestled with fundamental questions about the nature of Christ. As patriarch of Alexandria…
Free
-
Cyril of Alexandria · 412–420 · Commentary
Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on Isaiah represents one of the most sophisticated examples of early fifth-century biblical exegesis, written during his tenure as Patriarch of Alexandria between 412 and 420. The work…
Original language
-
Commentary on Luke Select Letters and Commentary on Luke
Cyril of Alexandria · 412–444 · Other
Cyril of Alexandria's Select Letters and Commentary on Luke emerged from two distinct but related contexts in the early fifth century. His letters addressed the Christological controversies that would culminate at the…
-
Letters Letters (NPNF2-14)
Cyril of Alexandria · 412–444 · Letter
Cyril of Alexandria's letters emerge from the most turbulent theological controversy of the fifth century — the battle over Nestorianism that would reshape Christian understanding of the incarnation. Writing as Patriarch of…
-
Augustine of Hippo · 413–426 · Book
Augustine of Hippo wrote The City of God across thirteen years in response to one of history's most shocking events: the sack of Rome by Alaric and his Visigothic army in 410.…
Free
-
Jerome · 414–420 · Commentary
Jerome's commentary on the prophet Jeremiah represents one of the mature achievements of his exegetical career, written during his final years in Bethlehem between 414 and 420. Composed amid the upheaval of…
Original languageHard
-
Orosius · 414 · Treatise
This treatise represents Orosius's contribution to the theological controversies that shook the early fifth-century church, written in 414 during his stay in Palestine. The Spanish priest and historian composed this "memorandum" on…
-
Orosius · 415 · Treatise
Paulus Orosius wrote this apologetical treatise in 415 as a defense against accusations of heresy leveled at him by Spanish bishops. The young priest had traveled from his native Iberia to North…
-
Cyril of Alexandria · 415–420 · Commentary
Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on the Twelve Prophets emerged from his pastoral work as Archbishop of Alexandria during the early fifth century, when the church faced mounting theological controversies and needed clear…
-
Jerome · 415 · Treatise
For students of the Pelagian controversy from the Eastern side: three books of dialogue between Atticus and Critobulus on sinlessness, free will and grace, written the year Pelagius was tried in Palestine; Jerome's last major work.
FreeOriginal language
-
Cyril of Alexandria · 415–420 · Treatise
Cyril of Alexandria's On Adoration in Spirit and in Truth emerged from the theological ferment of early fifth-century Christianity, when the Church was working to articulate how the incarnation of Christ transformed…
Original language
-
Orosius · 416–418 · Book
Paulus Orosius wrote his Seven Books of History Against the Pagans between 416 and 418 at the request of Augustine of Hippo, who sought a comprehensive historical work to support his arguments…
Free
-
John Cassian · 419–426 · Treatise
The Collationes, or Conferences, records John Cassian's conversations with the desert fathers of Egypt during his extended sojourn there in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Writing for the monastic communities…
Free
