John Cassian
Brought the teaching of the desert fathers to the West.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- Conferences of John Cassian - Part I Older English 7.3 h read
- Conferences of John Cassian - Part II Older English 3.8 h read
- Conferences of John Cassian - Part III Older English 4.3 h read
- The Seven Books on the Incarnation of the Lord, Older English 4.6 h read
- The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Coenobia Older English 5.2 h read
Original-language texts
The Latin and Greek texts as edited and digitised by the Open Greek and Latin project (CC BY-SA 4.0): one column, with the standard references, and plain-text and TEI XML downloads for scholars. They have been corrected from print by machine and may still contain errors.
- Conlationes Patrum (Collationibus) (Latin, part 1 of 2) Latin 6.6 h read
- Conlationes Patrum (Collationibus) (Latin, part 2 of 2) Latin 4.1 h read
- Institutiones (Latin) Latin 3.6 h read
- De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorum (Latin) Latin 3.0 h read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.