§ 134. Literature.
Comp. the list of works in vol. II. 621 sqq.
I. The ecclesiastical writers of this period are collected for the first time by Migne, the Greek in
his Patrologia Graeca, Tom. 90 (Maximus Confessor) to 136 (Eustathius); the Latin in his
Patrologia Latina, Tom. 69 (Cassiodorus) and 75 (Gregory I.) to 148 (Gregory VII.).
II. General works: Du Pin, Ceillier, and Cave, and the bibliographical works of Fabricius (Biblioth.
Graeca, and Bibl. Latina); especially the Histoire Générale des auteurs sacrés ecclésiastiques
by the Benedictine Dom Remy Ceillier (1688–1761), first ed., 1729–63, in 23 vols.; revised
ed. by Abbé Bauzon, Paris, 1857–’62, in 14 vols. 4to. This ed. comes down to St. Bernard and
Peter the Lombard. Tom. XI., XII. and XIII. cover the 6th century to the 11th.
A. H. L. Heeren (Prof. in Göttingen): Geschichte der classischen Literatur im Mittelalter. Göttingen,
- 2 Parts. The first part goes from the beginning of the Middle Age to the 15th century.
Henry Hallam: State of Europe in the Middle Ages. Ch. IX. (New York ed. of 1880, vol. III. 254
sqq.); and his Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries. Part
I., Ch.1 (N. York ed. of 1880, vol. I., p. 25–103).
Hermann Reuter: Geschichte der relig. Aufklärung in Mittelalter. Berlin, 1875, 2 vols.
III. Special works.
(1) Learning and Literature in the East: Leo Allatius: Graeciae orthodoxae Scriptores. Rom.,
1652–’59, 2 vols. The Byzantine Historians, ed. by Niebuhr and others, Gr. and Lat. Bonn,
1828–’78, 50 vols., 8vo. Monographs on Photius, especially Hergenröther (the third volume),
and on John of Damascus by Langen (1879), etc.; in part also Gass: Symbolik der griech. Kirche
(1872).
(2) Literature in the Latin church: Johann Christ. Felix Bähr: Geschichte der römischen Literatur.
Carlsruhe, 1836 sqq.; 4th revised ed., 1868–’72, 4 vols. The 4th vol. embraces the Christian
Roman literature to the age of Charlemagne. This formerly appeared in three supplementary
vols., 1836, 1837 and 1840, the third under the title: Gesch. der röm. Lit. im karolingischen
Zeitalter (619 pages).—Wilhelm S. Teuffel: Geschichte der römischen Literatur. Leipzig, 1870,
4th ed. edited by L. Schwabe, 1882. Closes with the middle of the eighth century. Adolph Ebert:
Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters im Abendlande. Leipzig, 1874–’80, 2 vols.
Comp. also Léon Maitre: Les écoles episcopales et monastiques de l’occident depuis Charlemagne
jusqu’ à Philippe-Auguste, 1866. H. Jos. Schmitz: Das Volksschulwesen im Mittelalter. Frankf
a. M., 1881.
(3) For Italy: Muratori: Antiquitates italicae medii aevi (Mediol., 1738–’42, 6 vols. fol.), and Rerum
italicarum Scriptores praecipui ab anno D. ad MD. (Mediol., 1723–’51, 29 vols. fol.). Tirabsoschi
(a very learned Jesuit): Storia della letteratura italiana, antica e moderna. Modena, 177l-’82,
and again 1787–’94; another ed. Milan, 1822–26, 16 vols. Gregorovius: Geschichte ’der Stadt
Rom. im Mittelalter. Stuttgart, 1859 sqq., 3rd ed. 1874 sqq., 8 vols.
(4) For France: the Benedictine Histoire litteraire de la France. Paris, 1733–’63, 12 vols. 4to.,
continued by members of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1814 sqq.—Bouquet:
Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Paris, 1738–1865, 22 vols. fol.; new ed. 1867
sqq. Guizot: Histoire générale de la civilisation en Europe et en France depuis la chute de
l’empire romain jusqu’ à la revolution française. Paris, 1830, 6 vols., and many editions, also
two English translations.—Ozanam: La civilisation chrétienne chez les Francs. Paris, 1849.