Provenance

The Sources

Every work a page or a note on this site leans on stands here, with its author, its year and its terms. The works are grouped by the period they were written in, and alphabetically by author inside each period. The undated works and the data sets stand at the foot.

695
Works on the shelfplus 19 data sets
545
Authors cited
146
Free to read in fullpublic domain

Summary

Each row names what kind of source it is, so an ancient witness and a modern study never read as the same weight. A work cited in more than one place stands once, with its citations folded under it.

695 works stand here, cited 799 times across the site.
146 of them are public domain, so you can read them in full for nothing.
40 were written before AD 500, and 460 from 1950 onward.
80 carry no date on the record and stand in their own section.

The people behind these works have their own pages. Read the 32 voices this site quotes.

The Present Era

1950 to today · 6 works

Undated works

no year on the record · 19 works

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