A Clerk of Oxford is a blog mainly about the literature of medieval England from the 11th century onwards. Since 2008, Dr. Eleanor Parker, a scholar of Medieval English literature from Oxford University, blogs about a variety of topics related to her main research interest – the Danish Conquest of 1016 – in medieval historical writing. In doing so, she also blogs about legends of English saints and religious poetry in Old and Middle English. While the blog is not necessarily intended for academics, it might still be a useful resource for hagiographic research as Dr. Parker’s aim is to provide sources and translations which are not already available online. In order to navigate you might browse the posts via the label “saints”. She is also active on Twitter, where she posts about all things Medieval and scholarship.
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Medieval Nordic Text Archive
The Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) was founded in 2001 and is a network of 15 Nordic archives, libraries and research departments. They aim at publishing medieval texts and manuscript facsimiles from Nordic countries in digital form and making them available online. They offer about 50 medieval Nordic tests which are mostly in Old Icelandic or Old Norwegian. However, there also are Old Swedish and Danish texts as well as Latin ones. All of them are encoded which means that morphological and syntactic queries can be made. You may use their helpdesk in order to navigate the catalogue. Menota also provides advice on the encoding of medieval manuscripts in XML in the form of encoding guidelines; translations of medieval Nordic texts and links to several dictionaries for medieval Nordic languages.
Saint Patrick’s Confessio
This website is the first point of contact for information on the Confessio of St. Patrick. It was created as part of the HyperStack Project, a project initiated by the Royal Irish Academy and several other Irish institutions. Their aim is to provide information on the Irish patron St. Patrick by providing access to his works. Accordingly, the website offers St. Patrick´s Confessio, his Epistola in Latin and translations in several modern languages (English, German, Italian etc.). For Medieval Studies, the digitisation of eight manuscripts of the Confessio from the 9th to the 17th century might be very useful as there are five manuscripts from the 11th and 12th century. For the history of reception, the digitisation of the two early modern and the four 20th century prints might be of interest. The website also includes “Special Features” such as scholarly articles, bibliographies and further texts on St. Patrick.
Associazione Italiana San Rocco Di Montpellier
On this site, the Italian Association Saint Roch of Montpellier and the International Centre for Studies on Saint Roch compile information related to Saint Roch both in Roman languages and in English. The section „AGIOGRAFIE“ provides a list of biographical material on the saint from different authors oof the 15th century. Furthermore, the site gives access to transcriptions of its listed sources. While those transcriptions follow the language of the original text, the basic information about the sources themselves are given in some Roman languages and in English.
Last Updated: 2021
Acta Sanctorum Database
The Acta Sanctorum Database provides the online version of the complete printed texts of Acta Sanctorum. You will have to register via ProQuest or use your library’s subscription in order to access the database. The database is extremely user-friendly. Also, you can search the texts via keywords. Moreover, you will find references to the BHL. In addition, a combined search and a search history have recently been added to facilitate research. If you need further help you can find training resources via Proquest.
patristica.net
patristica.net collects available online editions of papal literature, church councils and other patristic writings. English translations are partly included. The website collects editions of Labbé from the 17th century, Giovanni Domenico Mansi from the 18th century and Heinrich Denzinger from the 19th century. Access to the Patrologiae Cursus Completus Series Graecea and Series Latina by Jacques Paul Migne from the 19th century is also provided. For each volume, there are several links to digitised versions. Not all of the links are still working but it should be possible to find a working link to most volumes.
Moreover, there are a few helpful links to make working with the texts easier (i.e. help with Greek diacritics, a Greek dictionary and more). Thus, the website offers contextualising works that are also important for hagiographic research. Weiterlesen
Episcopus: Society for the Study of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Middle Ages
Episcopus is an interdisciplinary society founded in 2004 for the study of medieval bishops and medieval secular clergy. In addition to announcing conferences, the society’s website also offers a collection of links to numerous translations of central source texts of the 3rd to the 14th century. Some hagiographic texts can also be found here. There are no membership fees.
Last Updated: 2021
Link: http://episcopus.org
Narrative Sources: The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries
Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries is an annotated collection of narrative source texts of all kinds which originate in the historical area of the medieval Low Countries. This includes historiographical sources as well as hagiographical texts. The entries contain a great deal of information on the genesis of the text (author, period of origin, etc.), on transmission (manuscripts, co-transmission, etc.) but also on modern accessibility (editions, translations, etc.). All of this information can be searched for explicitly. In general, the search options are manifold: in addition to a temporal limitation you can also search directly for manuscripts or certain types of sources. This is where hagiography comes into play. Hagiography can be selected via the „Type“ search function. A total of 786 entries on hagiographical texts from the Low Countries between the 6th and 16th centuries can be found here.
Author: Jeroen Deploige (Department of History – Ghent University)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library provides access to Christian literature from all time periods. All documents, which can either be read online or downloaded, allow for a full text search. Conveniently, the entire content of the CCEL is searchable by author, title, format, subject and language. Additionally, they list the writings of the Early Church Fathers. The website does also have an online version of the Bible and offers several other English Bible translations, which is very useful in terms of comparison and close-reading research. Every work, which the CCEL provides access to, is linked to the online Bible. Thus, it is possible to have a look at several Bible commentaries as well as “Sermons and Meditation”, “Hymns” and other works which are referring to a unique verse of the Scripture.
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta BHLms
A digital issue of the manuscripts recorded in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, BHL. You get access to the catalogue of the BHL where you may enter a Saint’s name or a BHL-identifier and get an overview of and information on the manuscripts published by Bollandistes concerning the respective saint. The website is in French and has not been updated in almost 20 years. Nevertheless, it still is a useful resource.