Lives of the Saints and Hagiography

  • Acta Sanctorum – subscription required – unavailable at LSU; an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societé des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint’s feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940 http://acta.chadwyck.com/all/search
  • Acta Sanctorum Apostolorum ad literamexplicata – available in microfilm at LSU’s Middleton Library (main collection); also available through EEBO with an LSU PAWS account
  • Getty Museum: The Getty Open Content Program – provides free, open access to over 10,000 images from all media and historical periods, many from medieval illustrated manuscripts: http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html