TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) is a new digital tool for the study of Chinese Christianity from 1550 to 1950. The CHCD is hosted by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. The CHCD quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to … Read more
Website for history, art, and culture of northern frontiers of Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe between the 13th and 16th cs.
Searchable database of women who entered the English convents on continental Europe from the foundation of the first new house in Brussels in 1598 until 1800.
Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a searchable database delivering a variety of digital objects, with collections including material from the institutions’ history as well as their manuscript holdings.
Highlights some of the rare and unique resources that are available as bibliographic citations and finding aids for the history of women religious through the Catholic Resource Research Alliance (CRRA)’s consortial database, the Catholic Portal.
The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have several exhibits of material from their digital special collections, some Catholic-themed.
This website and database aims to introduce readers to the Jesuitica Collection at the Burns Library, Boston College, by highlighting books written about China by Jesuit missionaries.
The CCT-Database includes primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840).
The Archives of the House of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus includes digitized versions of primary and secondary sources related to Jesuits and their mission activities.
The ongoing Project is constructing inventories of books found in Jesuit library book catalogs, as well as of physical copies of those books and their provenance information.