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St. Germain, then contemporary bishop of Paris composed this letter to Brunhilda, Queen-consort of Austrasia. He attempted to intervene in the extremely violent feud then was then rocking the the Merovingian dynasty. St. Germain speaks of biblical example and the Christian virtue of clemency and forgiveness. How this letter was received by the queen is unknown to history, but the feud would eventually claim her life, as she was pulled apart by horses under the order of Chlothar II.

The Armenian text of Geography according to Ptolemy, which has recently been attributed to the churchman, Ananias of Shirak, is a sentinel work from Armenian antiquity. It remains out primary authority on both the Armenian geo-political worldview, and also the historical geography of the middle-east in general. The Greek sources which Ananias is claiming to draw from, Pappus of Alexandria, and Ptolemy himself, are clearly augmented from his own, now lost, native Armenian sources. He also appear to have Persian sources readily available to him, from the libraries of the Sassanian Empire.

St. Isaac of Nineveh, in this very brief volume, discusses four separate subjects. This compilation of his works includes: The Essential Property of Virtues, The Different Stages of Knowledge and Faith, Hymn of the Monks during Night Vigils, and Thoughts. These four works explore the moral and interpersonal message of the Christian Gospel and how they relate to the life of faith.

The Life of Saint Mary the Harlot is later attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian, deacon of the church in Edessa and was likely written towards the end of his life, though there have been claims against Ephrem's authorship. The text itself appears to have originally been composed in Syriac, and would circulate through Christendom under its Latin and Greek translation. It contains sixteen chapters about the life of the Syriac orphan, Mary and her uncle Abraham. The text concludes with a prayer, as it surviving in Latin, allegedly composed by St. Ephrem.

Attached is the surviving correspondence of St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia, and a significant member of the Carolingian court of the Emperor Charlemagne. His letters records the Frankish church's political alliance with Leo III and all future popes of Rome. He also encourages the king to observe the necessary noblesse oblige when it comes to the ongoing welfare of his subjects, the church, as well as the realm in general.

The Virtuous Life is a set of directive put forward by St. Isaac about how the Christian might be able to observe virtue on a regular basis. This is broken down into six books detailing how to avoid the near occasion of sin and observe strength against the power of human temptation. St. Isaac discusses this in terms of being cognizant of your own thoughts and attempting to developing an advanced sense of an observing ego.

This is a collection of one hundred points of advise that was given by the 5th century Greek church father St. John of Karpathos to a collection of monks in the east. It is unclear if this is in fact 'India' in the proper modern sense, or just within the Persian Empire. However, St. John appears to be interested in offering them direction to controlling their desires, observing Christian virtue, and holding some community discipline for the various monks submitting to the abbot.

This fifth council at the Persian city of Seleucia was completed to end the internal split in the church by its two previous Catholicos. Additional, Mar Aba and his collection of bishops are interested in ending the anarchy that was associated with the previous decade of ecclesiastical anarchy caused by the Persian schism. Under the direction of the Persian Shah Khosraw, the council declared the total authority of the Catholicos over all domains within the Persian state and beyond its political frontiers. Curiously, there is no mentioned to any Christological concerns which were a major feature of most councils of the Roman State.

This is a relatively late account by the Syriac Patriarch of Antioch regarding the state of the church in Georgia. Its historic value for that reason is limited, as it does not grant much information about the antiquity of the ancient church in Iberia. However, it does serve as a reasonable travel log for the state of Christians in Ottoman Iberia during the 17th century. Our author appears to be concerned about the state of the church given the persecution that was levied upon it by Turkish authorities, and recounts that he feels additional attention needs to be paid for its future restoration.

St. Evargius Ponticus clarifies the utility of Christian prayer in one hundred and fifty-three points in this short document. Unlike many of his contemporary peers, his audience appears to be both for lay readers and for monastics as well. He structures his argument around the proposition that prayer is a necessary function of daily life, and granting it structure and discipline can only help the faithful in their attempt to approach the Lord.

These are two letters of correspondence between the two Caucasian Sees in Georgia and Armenia regarding the presence of a Nestorian priest in their midst. There are some allusions drawn to issues of Christological doctrine, particularly that of the Council of Chalcedon and with imperial pressure to accept its canons coming from the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Synod of Partav was a council of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the 8th century that dealt with question regarding the authority and role of bishops and priests within the church, as well as concerns regarding the ritual integrity of many of the church's practices. These were compiled into twenty-three separate canons under the direction of Sion I, who was then reigning patriarch over the Armenian church.

The Ramban Pattukal is the traditional Nasarani song about the coming of St. Thomas the Apostle to Southern India. It details his movements, the churches that he founded, and his eventually death and martyrdom in Mylapore. The original Malayalam text is included here as well as an introduction and commentary explain the nature and origin of the text. Its over four hundred poetic stanzas are available here for the first time in English.

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin composed this biography of St. Augustine in the 11th century, drawing upon older Anglo-Saxon source of the famous churchman's life. It is the magnum opus a life of Goscelin, and recounts the life and ecclesiastical career of the founder of the Anglo-Saxon church. Much of its content has been cited throughout the centuries as a primary source of St. Augustine's life and theological legacy.

Radegund was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen of the Merovingian dynasty. She is also remembered as an early Frankish saint of the Catholic Church. Among other accomplishments, she founded the major Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers and Jesus College of Cambridge University. Her biography is told her by the Latin poet St. Venantius Fortunatus, then a hymnographer at the court of the Frankish kings.

As its title suggests, this work by St. Bernard of Clairvaux in interested in promoting the new moral code of combat that has been baptized and become the groundwork for the various Catholic military orders. While Catholic orders for the maintenance for the hospital in Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulcher had already been established, St. Bernard wants to bluster the morale and prestige of the the Knights of the Temple, also known as the Templar Knights to history. He sees their efforts in the Holy Land as being necessary to curb both the military prowess of the Saracens, but to dull the seemingly endless wars of European knights in Christendom by direct their hostility outward.

This is the companion piece to an earlier work of St. Aileran, the Mystical Interpretation. In this work, St. Aileran discusses the names of the ancestors of Christ and how they relate directly to the the technique of Christian morality. This is usually achieved through various scriptural quotations. However, this text is incomplete. It was either unfinished or lost sometime deep in antiquity.

Theodore (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿) appears to have composed this treatise in defense of the Christian faith against the political and intellectual attacks many many of of his Jewish and Islamic contemporaries. He is also deeply concerned with the question of Christological Orthodoxy, defending the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon against the Nestorian polemicists who seek to battle with Theodore's own West Syriac orthodoxy. His apologetic work would be preserved for some centuries with the aid of the Byzantine Church.

This is a collection of three books containing the correspondence of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph I. Most of his letters are composed to other vassals within the realm, but much of it has to do with the ecclesiastial affairs of the empires, his political dealings with Roman Papacy, international relationships relating to the state and to the Holy Land. Rudolph's work would help transition Germany out of the Medieval period, and he would be a forerunner for the coming Habsburg dynasty of Europe, which would come to sit upon the thrones of most of Western Europe. This work is an unparalleled glimpse into his thoughts and courtly behaviors.

St. Pelagia was a Syriac Christian saint and hermit in the 4th and 5th century. In her lifetime she was known for her extreme asceticism, renouncing various indulgences for the sake of Christ. Today, she is regarded as a saint by every apostolic church for her piety and charity.

The Armenian saint, Mesrop Mashtots, is perhaps one of the most esteemed churchman in Armenian history. As an early church intellectual and inventor of the Armenian alphabet he continues to hold a place of certain distinction in the annals of Armenian history. This is his biography, as assembled and composed by his disciple Koriun, who would later go on to led the Georgian church as its Catholicos. This work of hagiography is perhaps one of the most important Armenian church documents to sruvive from great antiquity.

The Lausiac History is a seminal work archiving the Desert Fathers of Egypt, written around the year 419-420 by St. Palladius of Galatia, at the request of Lausus the Eunuch, chamberlain at the court of the Eastern Roman Empire Emperor Theodosius II. It is broken down by each chapter, giving the hagiographical account of each monk. During the height of the medieval period it was an extremely popular Christian text in both the East and West, and remains a significant part of the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy.

The Paradise of Heraclides is a a long hagiographical collection composed the the 4th-5th century grammarian. His is addressing his work to Lausus, who may be the same as Lausus the Eunuch, courtier to the Emperor Theodosius II. His work mostly dealings with the works and charity of various Egyptians saints, and their relationship to the establishment of local Coptic churches. While this is a work out of the Alexandrian church, Heraclides appears to have composed this work in Latin, rather than the lingua franca of Greek, or the more parochial Coptic tongue.

The Eight Principal Vices' is one of the various Latin prose composed by the 7th century Anglo-Saxon saint, Aldhelm. It deals with the subject of morality and cautions against the sundry vices that might pose a threat to a Christian's soul. It is similar in its composition to work by Eutropius, Aldhelm's Visigothic contemporary. This work includes both the original Latin text as well as the English translation.

This volume contains six letters from the late Byzantine bishop, Isidore of Kiev, who was a prominent figure in the later Imperial church, and would become a Cardinal-bishop within the Catholic Church following the demise of the Empire. Composed from Venetian Crete, these letters chronicle the aftermath of the fall of the eternal city to the Turkish sultan and the political and ecclesiastical chaos that took place subsequent to its capture.

This is a text that is looking to reconcile the Celtic Church to that of the Roman tradition. This was particularly salient with the two titular issues, as the early Celtic church observed both a different date for East (separate from the Greek) and maintained a different style of monastic tonsure. These issue would come to a head at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, when formal reconciliation was suppose to have taken place.

The Italian Diplomas is a collection of three documents from the reign of the Emperor Charlemagne that deal with churches in the former Lombard kingdom, their preservation and protection under the law. These documents are also co-signed by the local patriarch, granting them the weight of both civil and ecclesiastical authority. This text included by the English translation, as well as the original Latin document as well.

Despite its title, this work by Theodore of Tarsus has more to do with the inter-workings of the Anglo-Saxon Church in the 7th century than it does with any notion of sacramental penance. Theodore is helped to shape the relatively young Anglo-Saxon church, by helping to define its sacramental life. Many of his ideas have been brought with him from his previous ecclesiastical work in Asia Minor and in Rome itself.

This four part volume is taken from Ethiopian texts regarding the life and journeys of St. Thomas the Apostle. It recounts his encounter with the Indo-Parthian king, Gondaphares, and his various travels through what is now Afghanistan. It parallels other related texts, such as the various hagiographies of St. Thomas and his various journeys. This translation by M.R. James is the most extent of any such text relating to the apostle's life and ultimate fate.

This is a short panegyric about the relationship of the High Byzantine Empire, under Basil II, and its relationship to its Armenian ally to the east. The text tells of the endowment of a piece of the True Cross to the Armenian monastery at Aparank, sometime during the early 11th century. St. Gregory makes references to several other powers within the Armenian church at the time, including the bishop of Mokk, Stephanos. It is stylistically broken down into 144 sections, which are translated here into English for the first time.