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.
The historical images in the International Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, Europe, and North America. The photographs record missionary endeavors and reflect the missionaries’ experience of communities and environments abroad.
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.
The historical images in the International Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, Europe, and North America. The photographs record missionary endeavors and reflect the missionaries’ experience of communities and environments abroad.
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.
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.
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.
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.