Loyola University Digital Exhibits
Loyola University Archives and Special Collections hosts several digital collections on Catholic and Jesuit themes.
Digital Projects
Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
The goal of the project is to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books. It grew out of an initiative to digitally reconstruct the earliest surviving library catalogue of St Ignatius College (founded 1870), the forerunner to Loyola University Chicago.
Database of Religious History
The DRH is a massive, standardized, searchable encyclopedia of the current best scholarly opinion on historical religious traditions and the historical record more generally.
Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research
The Institute is an international forum for the promotion of research into the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, particularly through the use and development of digital tools and sources.
Russian Methodism Digital Archive
The Russian Methodism Digital Archive is an ongoing project collecting sources on the history of Russian Methodism, including a scrapbook, hymns, and newsletter.
Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Digital, open-access resource that uses biography to document the 2000 year history of Christianity in Africa; biographical figures include men and women, clergy and lay people, Africans and expatriates from around the world.
Lives of Margherita Colonna: a Website to Accompany “Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome”
This companion website maintained by Lezlie Knox features pictures and maps, as well as useful external links to supplement a study completed with Sean Field of Larry Field’s translation of Margherita Colonna and her two hagiographic legends, Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome: The Lives of Margherita Colonna by Giovanni Colonna and Stefania. It is … Read more
Mapping Christianization On and Beyond the Frontiers: ArcGIS Crowdsourced Map Assignment
Assignment for students to map locations of Christianizing activity mentioned in late-antique primary sources using Esri StoryMaps.
Syriaca: The Syriac Reference Portal
Digital project for the study of Syriac literature, culture, and history, with geographical, prosopographical, and bibliographic databases.
The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity
Ongoing digital project on the movement of banished Christian clerics in Late Antiquity, including a prosopographical database, utilizing quantitative as well as qualitative methods.