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Medieval Studies—Church history

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Acta Sanctorum
Augustine
Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Early Church Documents
Corpus Christianorum: Library of Latin Texts
A dictionary of Christian biography, literature, sects and doctrines (PDF)
The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia
Europa Sacra Online
Labyrinth church history
Monastic Matrix, women's religious communities
New Catholic Encyclopedia (1908)
Past Master's
Patrologia Latina
Thesaurus Precum Latinarum

Books in the reference collections

A good outline of people, places and events is History of the Church (1980-), a translation of the excellent 1962 Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte,3rd ed. Other (now not so recent) general introductions include volumes in The Pelican History of the Church (by Owen Chadwick and Richard Southern); Barraclough (1968) The medieval papacy; Knowles and Obolensky (1968) The Middle Ages; J.B. Russell (1968) A history of medieval Christianity: prophesy and order, and Pelikan (1971-89) The Christian tradition; a history of the development of doctrine, 5 v. For the crusades: Setton (1969-1989) History of the crusades, 6 v. For monasticism, Lawrence (2001) Medieval monasticism: forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed.. All of the above are shelved in Green Stack. The 1983 general bibliography Medieval Studies: A Bibliographic Guide is surprisingly useful and thorough, though dated, for all aspects of Medieval religion and church history.

Recent volumes in Oxford History of the Christian Church incude:

And other surveys:

There are numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias of religion in the Reference Collection. Do not overlook these basic sources listed in the section Encylopedias and Dictionaries.

Bibliographies, Guides, etc.

Also see General Bibliography and Index/Abstracts (for recent publications).

Compendia of Basic Documents & Translations

Subject headings include Europe--Church history--600-1500--Sources. Bibliographies of medieval works translated into English.

Liturgy

Read the relevant chapters in Berlioz et al. (1994) Identifier sources et citations [CB351.B4], and Kaske (1988) Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation [Z6203.K38].

Canon Law

Read the article by Roger Reynolds "Law, Canon to Gratian" in Dictionary of the Middle Ages  7:395-413.

Crusades

  • Mayer (1960) Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Kreuzzuge , Z6207.C97M3. Standard bibliography with coverage through the late 1950s. Supplemented for 1958-67 in Hist. Zeitschrift, Sonderheft 3 (1969):641-731. Then coverage to late 1980s in Mayer et al. (1989) "Select Bibliography of the Crusades," in Setton (ed.) History of the Crusades, vol.6: The impact of the crusades on Europe, pp. 511-664. Other volumes in History of the Crusades are:
    • v. 1. The first hundred years, edited by M. W. Baldwin.
    • v. 2. The later Crusades, 1189-1311, edited by R. L. Wolff and H. W. Hazard.
    • v. 3. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, edited by H. W. Hazard.
    • v. 4. The art and architecture of the Crusader states, edited by H. W. Hazard.
    • v. 5. The impact of the Crusades on the Near East, edited by Norman P. Zacour and Harry W. Hazard.
    • v. 6. The impact of the crusades on Europe .
  • Atlas of the Crusades, 1991, G1034.R5.
  • Atlas zur Kirchengeschichte, Neuausgabe, 1986, G1046.E4.A8f.
  • Atlas zur Kirchengeschichte, 2 ed., 1919, BR98.H4.
  • The Atlas of Medieval Jewish History, 1992, G1034.B413 1992 f.

Geography

  • Baudrillart (ed.), Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 1919- BR35.B3. A fundamental work for historians.
  • Cottineau (1935-1970) Répertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et priéures, 3 v., Z7839.C84, attempts to cover all of Europe including Scandinavia. Reference has vols 1 & 3 (indexes); the complete work is on microfilm (MTXT MFILM N.S. 7684).
  • Dugdale, William. Monasticon anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England ... Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale ... [New ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley ... Henry Ellis ... and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. London, J. Bohn, 1846.
  • Stifts-und Closter Lexicon, 1792, BX2616.H57.
  • Medieval Religious Houses England & Wales, BX2592.K56 1979
  • Medieval Religious Houses Scotland, 2d ed., BX2597.E2.
  • Moorman, Medieval Franciscan Houses, 1983. Green Library Stacks BX3606.2.M63 1983
  • Abbazie e monasteri d'Europa: guida illustrata a 480 centri di vita monastica benedettina, 1996. Green Library Gen Ref BX4627.R66 1996.

Orders

Lexicons of orders, places, and people (in addition to the works listed in the Geography section). Kapsner (1957) Catholic religious orders; listing conventional and full names in English, foreign language, and Latin, also abbreviations, date and country of origin and founders, 2d ed., enl. BX2420.K3, Lane Rm, is extremely useful; it includes a glossary and an alphabetical list of corporate church entities (canons, congregations, institutes, orders, societites) with cross-references to alternative name forms and related groups.

The Reformation

 Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Early Modern Literary Studies: sixteenth and seventeenth century resource materials on the Internet....
Classic Protestant Texts. Ad Fontes Electronic Publishers

There is a new edition (1990) of vol.2, The Reformation, of Cambridge Modern History, and the 1996 four volume Oxford History of the Reformation edited by Hillerbrand. These recent works give good coverage to such topics as family, women and gender issues, sexuality along with more traditional political, religious and intellectual issues and problems (e.g., "Studies of Women, Family and Gender," in vol. 2 of the 1992 Reformation Europe: a guide to research, where there are no entries for any of these topics in the earlier 1983 volume.) The 1994 Handbook of European history, 1400-1600: late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation is in both Stack and the Information Center. There are many dictionaries which also contain biographical information such as Lexikon der Reformationszeit: Dictionary of the Reformation.

For biography there is the handy three volume Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. This set provides bibliography for each entry and is a supplement to Collected Works of Erasmus. There is a recent (1997) volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series: German writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280-1580, Green Library Gen Ref PS129 .D52 V.179.

Continuing bibliography: see the relevant sources on the Indices & Abstracts page and Archiv fuer Refomationsgeschichte. Beiheft: Literaturbericht.

Bibliography & Microform collections:

Primary sources

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