Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia

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

China Historical Christian Database

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

British Crusade Sites

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 Visual Representation of Photos Taken from the Basel Mission Picture Archive

Visual presentation of photos showing the complex interaction or encounters between Basel Missionaries – usually Swiss or German – and West Africans, Indians, and Chinese between 1850 and 1950.

Who Were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800

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.

Treasures from the Catholic Research Resource Alliance: Women Religious

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.

Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitica Collection at Boston College

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.

Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014

Using historical maps, books, objects, and textiles, Crossings and Dwellings tells the story of European Jesuits and women religious who arrived in America’s borderlands to serve indigenous and immigrant populations.

The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project

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.

Canterbury Roll Project

Image of the manuscript without digital annotations.

The Canterbury Roll Project, Canterbury University, New Zealand The Canterbury Roll is a 15th-century English genealogical text. It was created in the late 1420s/ early 1430s and subsequently modified on a number of occasions before final revisions were made to it, most probably during the reign of Richard III (1483–1485). Digital Edition The Digital Edition … Read more