TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
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.
Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia is a digital archive of photographs of medieval churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin region in northern Mesopotamia (modern day south-east Turkey). It includes images of buildings, decorations, architectural details, and landscapes. Although most of the buildings photographed were built in the medieval era (roughly from … Read more
In this project, Corliss Slack documents sites in the British Isles with historical connections to the Crusades of the Middle Ages. Many of these sites are connected to objects brought home by crusaders and served as local devotional sites. Overall, this project collects examples of individual strategies for crusade remembrance in order to spark conversations about … Read more
A thesaurus of 11538 exemplary anecdotes from the Middle Ages: a multimedia, multilingual database of exemplary stories giving special insight into the imagination of men and women in the Medieval West and beyond, from Russia and the Middle East to China and Japan.
Website for history, art, and culture of northern frontiers of Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe between the 13th and 16th cs.
VHMML School teaches about scripts and manuscripts, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codicology, as well as transcription.
VHMML offers resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
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.
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
Digital project for the study of Syriac literature, culture, and history, with geographical, prosopographical, and bibliographic databases.