What comes after the Romans?

The Bible, Aquinas

the muslims

>>9598589
the Byzantines, duh

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>>9598589
Jump this shitty suggestion >>9598593 and read the christian works, especially poetry and chants, as well as the first church fathers. Don't forget the heretic works -- again, especially poetry -- that survived the inquisition's destruction.

>>9598611
Does Dante, Milton and Faust come into this part?

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>>9598614
Of course, but if you directly read them you basically skip 1100 years of literature.

>>9598630
Thanks heaps. Thinking of going with Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales along with a compilation of early church writings from Penguin to start with.
How will I know if something is heretical? Is that Protestant writings?

>>9598589

The Christians

Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, etc.

>>9598589
Are you guys as excited about the coming Rennaisance as I am? After the Romans I read Plutarch's Lives, The Song of Roland, and the Poetic Edda...then Shakeman and Spenser and Tasso

>>9598667
>Beowulf
Holy fuck you chose wrong. Skip that garbage and read le Roman de la Rose and the Song of Roland. If you like epic poems, go on with Nibelungenlied and Poem of the Cid. Also, the Canterbury Tales are just a rip-off of Decameron.

>heretical literature
For example The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise. They were religious but had a sort of affair. Another heretical author is Gottschalk.
I haven't read Ludus de Antichristo but it seems to be super cool.
Another book I remember, not heretical but kinda weird, and definitely not categorised under any genre, is Hortulus by Walafrid Strabo. He basically spent an entire long poem talking about the plants and herbs that grew in his courtyard. I can't think of anything more medieval than this desu

300 trojans

>>9598691
Don't leave out Ariosto

>>9598589
>>9598592

>tfw you will never have this unilateral a view of history

>>9598735
You're better than them, mate.

>>9598630
Fantastic list, thanks

>>9598589
Late-empire neoplatonism. Many of the roots of Jewish/Arab philosophy are there.

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>>9598589
The Ottomans

The italians

>>9598589
The Corinthians

>>9598589
Medieval lit in early variants of the romance languages.

>>9598589
1 Corinthians