Church History and Liturgy

• Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – a database of all the vernacular penitentials that survive from Anglo-Saxon England http://www.anglo-saxon.net/penance/

• Catholic Encyclopedia– full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

• Dictionnaired’histoire et de géographieecclésiastiques – provides a historical notice on any personage, institution or place linked to Church history; available in print at LSU’s Middleton Library (Main Collection); subscription required through Brepols to access electronically http://www.rhe.eu.com/pages/rhe34_en.asp

• Europa Sacra – offers coverage of medieval Church prelates, information on all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates under obedience to Rome. As of 2003, it provides prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs. Gradually more recent prosopographical works on members of religious orders and data on secular clergy supplied by nationally-based prosopographical projects will be added; subscription required through Brepols https://about.brepolis.net/europa-sacra-es/

• Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, the Special Collection department of the University, holds facsimiles of medieval and renaissance books and manuscripts, some of them illustrated:  Bibles, books of hours, martyrologies,  sacred music, church law. Access is public, on site only, free of charge. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/cc/sg/med-ren-mss-facs.pdf
  • Hill Library also owns an original manuscript Book of Hours (French, ca. 1450) and  reproductions of early printed books, including the Gutenberg Bible (1455), the Cologne Bible (1478), and the first printing of the King James Bible (1611). http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/cc/sg/religion.pdf
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