/lit/ - Literature

I've decided to write short fiction first so I have the confidence and ability for a full novel

Most /lit/izens who have read the Greeks and other philosophy already know that a healthy body is conducive to a healthy mind. There's already a decent crossover from /lit/ onto /fit/. Nobody on /lit/ rails against lifters or is resentful.

Your average /fit/izen though does not read and probably has no more interest in reading now than they did yesterday

>>7049175
I'd hit up text books first to get the basics of the time period and then when your knowledge has reached a basic level, read authors work to focus on individual areas of the period and different theories.

Anyone know of good books about the following subjects:
1) Charlemagne
2) Early Christianity
3) Pre-Islamic religion in the Middle East
4) Pre-Christian religion in Europe
5) Something about the major Christians before the Great Schism (e.g. Nestorias)
6) Someting about the Great Schism and about the Orthdox Church
7) A book on pre-Orthodox schism (e.g. the Council of Chalcedon)
8) Biographies on the major final Roman Emperors (e.g. Diocletian and Constantine)
9) A book on the Crisis of the Third Century
10) A book about the War of the Grand Allaince (for the love of God not about Ireland)

A lot of requests, I know, but it would help a lot!

>>6845869
Really you should read it all but the first four books of the Old Testament and the Gospel are the real big dogs.