ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Links to websites relevant to ecclesiastical history
This list does
not pretend to be comprehensive but it does offer links to further useful
sites, arranged by category; many of them will have their own page of web
links, often more specifically orientated to a particular topic than a general
list like this one could be. As is often stated, inclusion of a link on this
page does not constitute approval of its contents. However, I think that the
following will prove useful for those wishing to explore what is available in
particular fields.
I have not
included subscription sites, but if you are linked with an academic institution
you will be able to find out about these from your librarian.
This page is
frequently updated, so if you run a website for any society, seminar series or
other agency in the field of church history, please contact the webmaster to
have a link added to this page or to notify out-of-date or broken links. I welcome
links to sites in other languages. The EHS would also be pleased to have a link
to this site added to the webpages of other
institutions, libraries, networks or societies.
NB: My apologies that accents have been removed from certain foreign
titles; this is due to a software problem which is proving difficult to
rectify.
Societies and other professional
bodies
American Society of Church History: http://www.churchhistory.org/
Canterbury and York Society: http://www.history.ac.uk/cantyork/welcome.html
The Chapels Society: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/chapelsoc/
Religious History Society (Australia): http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/rhs/
Scottish Church History Society: http://www.schs.org.uk/
Society for Reformation Research: http://www.reformationresearch.org/
Society for Reformation Studies: http://www.reformationstudies.org/
Society for
Renaissance Studies: http://www.rensoc.org.uk
Society for the Study
of the Crusades and the Latin East: http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmarkowski/ssclehome.html
Baptist Historical Society: http://www.baptisthistory.org.uk
Brethren Archivists' and Historians' Network: http://www.partnershipuk.org/main/bahn.html
Catholic Record Society: http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/
Church of England Record Society: http://www.coers.org/
Society for
Pentecostal Studies: http://www.sps-usa.org
Strict Baptist
Historical Society: http://www.strictbaptisthistory.org
Unitarian Historical
Society, http://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk
United Reformed
Church Historical Society: http://www.urc.org.uk/history_soc/
Wesley Historical
Society: http://www.wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
British Association
for Local History: www.balh.co.uk
Historical
Association: http://www.history.org.uk
Institute of Historical
Research: http://www.history.ac.uk
Royal Historical Society: http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org
Arts and Humanities
Research Council, http://www.ahrb.ac.uk
Networks and
Research Projects
The Bible and the Visual Imagination, University of Wales, Lampeter: www.imagingthebible.org
Commission Internationale d'Histoire
et d'Etudes du Christianisme: http://www.cihec.bham.ac.uk/index.htm
Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies: http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/index.html
The Early
Modern Parish Church and the Religious Landscape’, AHRC-sponsored research
project: http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/research/project/parishchurch_and_religiouslandscape/
Early Modern Worship Network: http://www.dur.ac.uk/emwn
European Forum on the History of Religious Institutes in the 19th
and 20th centuries (Relins-Europe): http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/relins/eu/index.htm
European Network on the Instruments of Devotion (ENID): http://www.enid.uib.no/
Historians
of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI): www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/
History Lab, a forum for postgraduates, run from the IHR: www.history.ac.uk/histlab
History PGDocNet UK, a support network for
postgraduate and postdoctoral historians: www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk/HistoryPGDocNetUK
Institut fuer
schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte,
Universitaet Zuerich: http://www.unizh.ch/irg/index.html
Religious
Archives Group, an informal group of archivists, librarians and others
interested in the administration and care of religious archives in the
Reti Medievali
(Online Network for Medieval Studies): http://www.storia.unifi.it/rm/
Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology: www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk
Warwick Network for Parish Research: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/parishnetwork
Seminars
Dr Williams's
Centre for Dissenting Studies: http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/seminar/index.html
Ecclesiastical History Reading Group, Durham University: http://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/research/seminars/churchhistorysem/
Modern Religious History, Institute of Historical Research: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/seminar.php?series=146
Religious History of Britain 1500-1800, Institute of Historical
Research: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/seminar.php?series=139
Events
Calvin quatercentenary (2009): http://www.calvin09.org;
http://www.unige.ch/ihr/calvin2009-e.html
Edinburgh 2010: http://www.towards2010.org.uk
Gateway and
primary text sites
Association des
Publications de la Faculte de Theologie
Protestante de Strasbourg: http://www.rhpr.net.
Includes the Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses, and an excellent selection of links
to institutions, publishers, library catalogues, online texts and more.
Bibliographical
Information Base in Patristics: http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca.
Searchable site; indices in French.
British History
Online: http://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Includes volumes from the Victoria History of the Counties
of England and much more.
Byzantium: Byzantine
Studies on the Internet: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/
Christian Classics
Ethereal Library: http://www.ccel.org.
Primary texts from most periods, including the Schaff etc. editions of the Fathers.
Centre for Early
Christian Studies: http://www.cecs.acu.edu.au. Links to
further patristic and medieval sites; International Early Mariology Project;
Chrysostom bibliography; Patristics newsletter; and
more. Endorsed by the Senate of the Australian
Catholic University.
Creeds of the
Churches: www.creeds.net.
Run by the Presbyterian Church in the USA, but covers the main Western
Christian traditions.
Digital
Librarian, http://www.digital-librarian. All-embracing gateway site, worth a look.
Documenta Catholica Omnia: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu.
Huge e-book database of multilanguage
full texts and concordances of Catholic and classical authors. There
cannot be many official Roman Catholic documents not on this site; main page
mostly in Latin, but subsidiary explanations often in English. Includes simplified editions of Migne's Latin and
Greek series.
Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (ECOLE): http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/.
Primary texts from the Patristic and Medieval periods.
Gallica (Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise): http://gallica.bnf.fr.
Some French-language texts and works published in France, including a number of
volumes of the Patrologia Orientalis, and a few of the Patrologia
Latina too.
Internet Medieval
History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Missionary and World Christianity resources (part of the School of
Oriental and African Studies website): http://www.soas.ac.uk/departments/departmentinfo.cfm?navid=423
Mundus: http://www.mundus.ac.uk.
Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom.
St Pachomius Library: http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html.
Gateway to Patristic and Orthodox texts.
Papal Encyclicals
Online: www.papalencyclicals.net
Patristique.org: http://www.patristique.org.
Selection of documents in French
Perseus Digital
Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu.
The classical section includes hundreds of texts by Greek and Latin classical
authors, but also the Vulgate and an edition of Bede's Ecclesiastical
History; the Duke Papyri database includes hundreds of volumes.
Project Wittenberg: www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html. Lutheran texts.
Puritan Books
(low-cast downloadable PDFs of C17 texts produced by scanning originals): www.puritan-books.com.
Royal Historical
Society Bibliography of British and Irish History: http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl
Royal Historical
Society Guide to Record Societies and their publications: http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/recsocs/list.htm
The Tertullian
Project: http://www.tertullian.org.
Includes Latin texts plus translations in a number of languages
Vatican archives: http://www.vatican.va
Wabash Center: Guide to Internet Resources for Learning and
Teaching in Theology and Religious Studies: http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm. Among
other things, this page is good for links to particular theologians.
World Council of
Churches: http://www.wcc-coe.org;
http://www.oikoumene.org.
The latter in particular has many of the more significant WCC documents; in
each case, some hunting around may be needed!
Libraries
NB: This listing does
not include university, college or seminary libraries, but focuses on
independent libraries with significant collections of material relating to
ecclesiastical history. Suggestions for overseas listings are welcomed.
Association of
British Theological And Philosophical Libraries: http://www.abtapl.org.uk
Note also the ABTAPL's Union List of religious and philosophical periodicals, covering the
holdings of many British and Irish libraries not on COPAC: http://www.le.ac.uk/aptapl/ababbrev.html
Catholic National
Library (formerly Catholic Central Library): http://www.catholic-library.org.uk
Deutsches
Archaeologisches Institut, http://www.dainst.org
Dr Williams's Library, London:
http://www.dwlib.co.uk
Dumbarton Oaks: http://www.doaks.org/Byzantine.html.
Wide-ranging site dealing with Byzantine studies.
Evangelical Library,
London: http://www.evangelical-library.org.uk
Lambeth Palace
Library: http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org
St Deiniol's Library,
Hawarden: http://www.st-deiniols.org
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