2020 Online DATABASES

Brepols Online Databases Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Source Collections 2

Bibliographies 11

Encyclopaedias 18

Stand-alone Databases 21

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B Introduction

Unequaled resources for the study of Western civilisation from Antiquity to the twenty-first century

For more than 25 years, Brepols Publishers has been The other strength of Brepols lies in the study of Latin developing high-value databases in the field of Humanities. language and Literature as we offer the world’s leading Since 2001, these databases are available online on a databases in this field. Brepols has created a Latin environ- platform called BREPOLiS. ment where we bring together recent Latin texts editions and Latin dictionaries:

At the moment, BREPOLiS offers seven bibliographic databases, four encyclopaedias, eight full-text data­ The cluster Brepolis Latin Complete gathers together bases and four stand-alone databases. the Library of Latin Texts (Series A & Series B), the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, the Archive of Celtic- Latin Literature, the Aristoteles Latinus Database, and One of Brepols’ main fields of interest isMedieval Studies. the Database of Latin Dictionaries. The Cross Database We have created an unparalleled medieval environment Searchtool allows the user to search these databases where we bring together key resources for the study of simultaneously. the Middle Ages with bibliographies on the one hand, and with encyclopaedias on the other. Two clusters are available, including “live links”: A last cluster of databases is dedicated to Religious Studies and Church History and includes the Index Religiosus, the Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, and Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies gathers together the Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire (Bischöfe des Heiligen the International Medieval Bibliography, the Bibliographie Römischen Reiches). de civilisation médiévale and the International Directory of Medievalists. Not content with having developed such tools, we are still working to further improve these databases and to Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias gathers together make new tools available to the international community the Lexikon des Mittelalters, the International Encyclopaedia of scholars. The four most recent databases are Clavis for the Middle Ages and Europa Sacra. Clavium, Sources Chrétiennes Online, the Bibliographie annuelle du moyen âge tardif, and the Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques.

Brepols Online Databases

1 New

Clavis Clavium (ClaCla)

The Gateway to Late Antique and Medieval Literature

Clavis Clavium, or ‘Key of Keys’, is the go-to database to access Late Antique and Medieval Key Features Christian literature. It incorporates the almost 8,000 pages of data found in four so-called • Presents the mass of printed • Continuously updated: no more waits claves: the Clavis Patrum Latinorum and the data in an integrated and for a new printed update. ClaCla is Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, the Clavis accessible way: no more continuously updated – not, as in Patrum Graecorum and the Bibliotheca comparing different claves to the past, by one or two scholars, Hagiographica Graeca. Together, these four in- gather all available information but by a host of specialists, whose dispensable tools provide researchers (wheth- about one and the same text or contributions are subjected to peer er historians, theologians, philologists, or philos- author review ophers) working on the extensive field of Early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine literature • Versatile: you pick the way you • Ever-expanding: the list of claves we with essential information regarding authorship, want to access the data (via title, plan to add in the future is long, e.g. authenticity, chronological and geographical incipit, desinit, author, , … Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti, contexts, manuscript transmission, and editorial or via a combination of two Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti, history. or more of these categories) Théologie Byzantine, Traditio Patrum, …

Now, with the creation of the Clavis Clavium database, researchers can for the first time access this enormous mass of printed data in an integrated and accessible way. The data- base allows all four claves to be searched to- gether, for maximum efficiency, and it offers huge versatility through search options that can combine different categories (e.g. title, incipit, desinit, author, or saint). Continuously updated (after peer review) with material brought together by specialists in the field, the Clavis Clavium is a dynamic research tool that will continue to be expanded and updat- ed in the future as new claves and material are added, and by serving as a gateway to other (third-party) information and functionalities.

Related Databases

• The database is an essential gateway to other full-text databases available on BREPOLiS, such as Library of Latin Texts

2 Source Collections New

S CHRÉT CE IE R NN U E O S S Sources Chrétiennes Online (SCO)

O N L I N E Critical texts and French translations that have been published in the printed “Sources Chrétiennes” series now available in a searchable database

From its inception in 1942, the “Sources Chrétiennes” series (based in Lyon and Key Features published by Éditions du Cerf in Paris) has provided critical editions of texts from • Online version of the • 100 volumes added per year the first 1,400 years of the Church, Sources Chrétiennes series accompanied by a French translation as • Both the source texts and well as an introduction and notes. More • Texts in Greek, Latin, Syriac, the translations are searchable precisely, the series consists of editions-with- Armenian and Coptic • Multiple filters allow for translations of Christian texts in Greek and • French translations targeted searches Latin, but also in oriental languages, such as Syriac, Armenian and Coptic. Whereas it has • 200 volumes available at launch always been the series’ mission to make the texts at hand easily accessible for consultation and (linguistic, historical, philosophical and theological) study, Sources Chrétiennes Online even expands the possibilities in this regard. Reserving the introduction, apparatus and notes for the printed series, the online database makes it possible to select texts along various criteria and to perform targeted searches both on the source texts and on the French translations that over the years have been published in the series.

Related Databases

• For patristic texts see also the full-text data­ bases Library of Latin Texts and Patrologia Orientalis Database.

Source Collections 3 Library of Latin Texts (LLT)

The world’s leading database for the study of Latin texts

The project was started in 1991 as the Cetedoc Library of Christian Content Latin Texts, CLCLT, under the direction of Prof. Paul Tombeur. From 2009 onwards, the database is known as the Library of Latin Texts, the Literature from Antiquity world’s leading database for Latin texts. The first chronological part of the database comprises The new name Library of Latin Texts refers to the expansion of the the entire corpus of Latin literature from Classical chronological limits that were originally set, as well as to the broad- Antiquity up to the second century AD. ening of its horizon which now integrates the initial Christian out- (opera omnia of Plautus, Terence, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, look into a general cultural perspective. The aim now is to offer a Horace, Ovid, Titius-Livius, the Senecas, the two Plinys, database that continues to expand and aims to comprise not only Tacitus, Quintilian and the others). The texts from this Latin literature from the patristic and medieval periods but also from section come essentially from the Bibliotheca scriptorum Antiquity and the early-modern and modern eras. The Library of Latin Romanorum Teubneriana / Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina 1 Texts gathers Latin texts of all genres and all periods. Great im- (© Walter de Gruyter). portance is attached to translations, essentially from Greek originals, into Latin.

With regard to this corpus, the objective of the database can be sum- Literature from Patristic Authors marised in the brief sentence: “Who said what, when, where, and how many times?” The second chronological part of the databases comprises the patristic Latin literature that starts The textual material integrated into the database forms the first of around 200 A.D. with and ends with the the two pillars on which the Library of Latin Texts is built, the other death of the Venerable in 735. one being a rich pool of sophisticated search tools.

It offers the complete works of important patristic writers such as , Augustine, Ausonius, Cassian, , Magnus Felix Ennodius, Gregory the Great, , Marius Victorinus, , Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, Rufinus of Aquileia, Salvian, Tertullian, Victor of Vita, the Latin LLT The is the reference database for Latin texts, offering texts from translations of the Apostolic Fathers, and many rich corpora the beginnings of Latin literature down to the present day. of authors such as Boethius, Cassiodorus, Eucherius of Lyon, Gennadius of Massilia, Hilary of Poitiers, Ildefonus LLT In total, the present version of the contains more than 128 million of Toledo, Isidore, and Bede. It also contains non-Christian Latin words, drawn from almost 11,000 works (including 5,800 dip- literature of that period, by authors such as Ammianus lomatic charters) that are attributed to approximately 1,850 authors. Marcellinus, Claudian, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, or the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. This second part also contains best editions available The texts are selected from the and when the complete critical text of the Latin Bible according to possible established according to best contemporary scholarly prac- the , the corpus of Latin Pseudepigrapha of the Old tice. Great efforts have been undertaken to verify facts relating to the Testament, and the Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils of text, such as the veracity of the authorial attribution or the dating. Late Antiquity. The printed text has often been enhanced by correcting detected typographical errors. In order to isolate, as far as possible, the words proper to each work, a distinction is made between the original text and the “paratextual” elements.

4 Source Collections Literature from the Middle Ages (736-1500) Key Features The medieval literature in the database comprises Latin literature after 735 and includes a large number of texts up to 1500. • Contains more than 5,200 texts • Academic partner: Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum This part of the database contains more than 83 million Occidentalium’ words and continues to develop. It includes the com- plete works of many medieval authors such as Anselm • Updated yearly with new material of Canterbury, Beatus of Liebana, , • Interface in English, French, German and Italian Rupert of Deutz, Sedulius Scottus, , Thomas a Kempis, Thomas of Celano or William of St. Thierry. It • The powerful search-software enables also includes the Sentences and the Commentaries on the the users to undertake enhanced search Pauline epistles of , the Rationale of Guillaume possibilities: Durand and important works by Abelard, , • by using wildcards and Booleans operators, , , Jan Hus, Ramon the user can construct complex search Alexandreis, Llull, , Walter of Châtillon’s an queries important collection of hagiographical texts and of liturgical works, a huge corpus of works related to the beginnings of • filters are used when, instead of searching the Franciscan order, and many others. through the entire data set, one wishes to restrict the search to a particular Author or group of Authors, a particular Work, a particular Period or Century Neo-Latin Literature (1501-1965)

This part of the database already contains almost 12 million words and continues to develop.

It includes, for instance, the decrees from the modern Recently Added Texts ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II, the Latin translations of John of Ruusbroec made by the German ’ correspondence, the letter collections Carthusian Laurentius Surius, important Latin works of of Laevinus Torrentius, Francis Bacon’s Nouum René Descartes, Lipsius’ De constantia, the Christianae organum, Baumgarten’s Aesthetica and religionis institutio of Calvin (according to the edition of Meditationes philosophicae, Hobbes’s Latin 1559), poetical works by Joachim du Bellay and by the Leviathan, Spinoza’s main works, Christian Wolff’s Jesuit Jacob Balde, the epic Colombus poem of Ubertino Philosophia prima siue Ontologia, etc. Carrara SJ, the complete works of , and many others...

Related Databases

• The interface is the same as Brepols full-text data- bases (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature and Aristoteles Latinus Database)

• Links to the Database of Latin Dictionaries (a user can select a word found in a text of LLT and auto- matically find entries on the word in the constituent dictionaries of the Database of Latin Dictionaries)

• By using the Cross Database Searchtool, LLT can be searched online together with the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature and the Aristoteles Latinus Database

• The cluster Brepolis Latin Complete includes all Latin full-text databases and dictionaries

Source Collections 5 Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH) One of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the critical publication of medieval historical texts

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the Gesellschaft für Deutsch- Key Features lands ältere Geschichtskunde. It is without doubt one of the most prestigious editorial undertak- eMGH ings for the critical publication of medieval his- • The contains more • Interface in English, French, torical texts. than 3,700 texts German and Italian • The database is updated yearly • Advanced search capacities In more than 300 volumes, covering the wid- with new material. As a general rule, for the eMGH are combined est possible range of historical documents, precedence is given to narrative with the possibility of accessing divided into five major Series (Scriptores, sources the digital version of each text. Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae and Antiquitates) Thus, from each search result, • The powerful search-software and into 33 Subseries, the Monumenta not a link to the digital version of enables the users to undertake only continues its editorial programme but it the corresponding page (along enhanced search possibilities: has established for all Western scholarship a with its critical apparatus) is standard for critical editions. offered • by using wildcards and operators, The powerful search engine developed by the user can construct complex the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidenta- search queries lium’ and Brepols Publishers allows unparal- leled exploitation of this important body of • filters are used when, instead texts, permitting in-depth searches of the of searching through the entire corpus. data set, one wishes to restrict the search to a particular Author or group of Authors, a particular Work, a particular Period or Century

Related Databases

• The integration of the eMGH into the Brepolis Latin platform offers the opportunity to carry out searches simultaneously with other col- lections of texts bringing together a total of more than 9,600 works (eMGH, Library of Lat- in Texts - Series A & Series B, Aristoteles Latinus Database, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature), and allows the user to search Latin reference dic- tionaries (Database of Latin Dictionaries)

• The cluster Brepolis Latin Complete includes all Latin full-text databases and dictionaries

6 Source Collections Monumenta Germaniae Aristoteles Latinus Historica (eMGH) Database (ALD)

The complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle

The critical edition of the Medieval Latin Aristotle is one of the main projects supervised Key Features and supported by the Union Académique In- ternationale / International Union of Acad- • Academic partners: International • The powerful search-software emies. The most important objective of the Union of Academies, Aristoteles enables the users to undertake project is to bring to scholarly attention the Latinus Centre (Katholieke enhanced search possibilities: various forms in which Aristotle’s texts came Universiteit ) and to be read in the West. The Latin versions of • by using wildcards and Booleans Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum these texts constituted the main tools for the operators, the user can construct Occidentalium’ study of science and philosophy in the Middle complex search queries Ages. They were considered as being the can- • The texts constitute the main • filters are used when, instead onized littera to which all the commentaries on tools for the study of science of searching through the entire Aristotle’s works referred. The role played by and philosophy in the Middle data set, one wishes to restrict these translations in the development of the Ages the search to a particular Author Western philosophical and scientific terminol- • Interface in English, French, or group of Authors, a particular ogy can thus hardly be overestimated. All the German and Italian Work, a particular Period or texts that have been critically edited in the se- Century ries Aristoteles Latinus are now available online together with the texts not yet available in a critical edition.

Related Databases

• The interface is the same as Brepols full- text databases (Library of Latin Texts - Series A & Series B, Monumenta Germaniae Historica and Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature) and the Cross Database Search Tool allows the user to search all of these databases together

• Live links to the Database of Latin Dictionaries: a user can select a word found in a text of ALD and automatically find entries on the word in the constituent dictionaries of the Database of Latin Dictionaries

• The cluster Brepolis Latin Complete includes all Latin full-text databases and dictionaries

Source Collections 7 Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL)

The corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 AD

In the early Middle Ages, literate individuals in and from the Celtic periphery of Europe Key Features (Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, Scotland and the Isle of Man) wrote many and varied • Contains more than 500 texts • The powerful search-software Latin works constituting what can arguably be enables the users to undertake seen as a distinctive literature, whose un- • Academic partners: Royal Irish enhanced search possibilities: usual vocabulary, grammar and phrasing (to say Academy and Centre ‘Traditio nothing of subject-matter) made it into what Litterarum Occidentalium’ • by using wildcards and has been called “one of the most curious and Boolean operators, the user • Interface in English, French, interesting phenomena of medieval philology”. can construct complex German and Italian search queries • Possibility to find a text based • filters are used when, instead on a Lapidge & Sharpe of searching through the reference (L&S) Subject Areas entire data set, one wishes to restrict the search to a particular Author or group This database contains more than five hun- of Authors, a particular Work, dred Latin works by over a hundred known a particular Period or Century and unknown authors, spanning the fields of , liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, etc.

Related Databases

• The interface is the same as other Brepols full-text databases (Library of Latin Texts - Series A & Series B, Monumenta Germaniae Historica and Aristoteles Latinus Database) and the Cross Database Search Tool allows the user to search all of these databases together

• Live links to the Database of Latin Dictionaries: a user can select a word found in a text of ACLL and automatically find entries on the word in the constituent dictionaries of the Database of Latin Dictionaries

• The cluster Brepolis Latin Complete includes all Latin full-text databases and dictionaries

8 Source Collections Archive of Celtic-Latin Database of Literature (ACLL) Latin Dictionaries (DLD) An unparalleled resource for research on the Latin language throughout the ages

Because of its broad spectrum of dictionar- ies, the Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD) Key Features offers an immediate overview of Latin vo- cabulary that no isolated dictionary can give. • 22 Dictionaries available • The DLD includes the Dictionary of In order to cover all possible perspectives Medieval Latin from British Sources DLD several on Latin vocabulary, the offers • Academic responsibility: (DMLBS). kinds of dictionaries: defining and translat- Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum ing, thematic, medieval and early modern. Occidentalium’ • The DMLBS provides online Therefore, the DLD is a major tool both for access to the complete printed • Multilingual interface (English, students learning Latin and for experienced version (©The British Academy, French, German and Italian) scholars. final fascicule published in • Search by Latin dictionary December 2013) The interface provides first-time users with headwords or by non-Latin • The database presents the a simple search option, while the more ex- words (English, French, Spanish, vocabulary of the Latin language perienced can explore the advanced search Italian or German) as written in Britain and by Britons possibilities where all kinds of words or ex- abroad from Gildas (AD 540) to pressions, Latin or Non-Latin, can be the Camden (1600). object of complex queries using various cri- teria, singly or in combination.

Starting in 2005 with only two dictionaries, it has now grown into a large collection of 22 dictionaries. Each year at least one dictio- nary is added and various improvements are made to the existing ones. These improve- ments can be corrections to the original text, increased search possibilities or the ad- dition of newly published addenda. The DLD strives to give its users the best and most up-to-date information.

Related Databases

• The DLD provides links to the full-text data- bases (Library of Latin Texts - Series A & Series B, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Aristoteles Latinus Database and Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature)

• The cluster Brepolis Latin Complete includes all Latin full-text databases and dictionaries

Source Collections 9 Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD)

The corpus of patristic texts from the Christian East published in the Patrologia Orientalis series

The Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) is a collection of patristic texts from the Christian Key Features East, including works, recorded in non-Latin languages, that come from geographical, cul- • Contains the 234 fascicles • Numerous filters (author, title, tural, or religious contexts somehow linked to published in the Patrologia subject, language, etc.) Rome or the Eastern Roman Empire. Orientalis series • Multilingual interface (English, This initial version of the database allows users • Each text is provided in its origi- French, German, and Italian) to access texts included in the Patrologia Ori- nal language and in translation entalis (PO) series in two forms: the original • Translations are searchable text, available as a PDF file, and a searchable (Syriac, Armenian, Arabic, Coptic, translation. The user can search for items Ge’ez, Georgian, and Slavonic) (such as keywords or quotes) in the language into which a text was translated in the PO. All the texts in the PO are searchable, and the reader can check the translation with the orig- inal text visible alongside as a non-searchable PDF file.

Related Databases

• For patristic texts see also Library of Latin Texts (full-text database), and Répertoire des traductions françaises des Pères de l’Eglise (rep- ertorium).

10 Source Collections New

Bibliographie Annuelle du Moyen Âge Tardif (BAMAT)

BAMAT Online Online The Annual Bibliography of Late Medieval Latin Authors and Texts

This database, published in collaboration with the IRHT, forms an answer to the challenge Key Features raised by the proliferation of the current bibliography, by focusing on two criteria: the • Online version of the Bibliographie • Partner: the Institut de Recherche speed of the data extraction and the analytical Annuelle du Moyen Âge Tardif et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris) quality of the records. (Brepols Publishers, 1992-) • Numerous search fields The database provides an up-to-date bibliogra- • More than 110,000 bibliographic phy with very little timelag. It is a bibliography records about late medieval authors and texts, and • Annual updates includes the manuscripts cited in catalogues by library collections, by genres, or by authors as well as in editions or other studies.

Related Databases

• For other medieval and early modern biblio­ graphies, see the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), the Bibliographie de civili­ sation médiévale (BCM), and the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR). • Another useful research tool for the study of the writers, texts and manuscripts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance is In Principio, the incipit index of Latin texts. • For the study of Latin texts, see also the full- text database Library of Latin Texts.

Bibliographies 11 L’Année philologique (APh)

The reference bibliography for academic publications relating to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilization

L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a Key Features specialized bibliographic database of schol- arly works relating to all aspects of Ancient • Broad coverage of publications • DOI links to the full text of Greek and Roman civilizations. The bibli- related to Antiquity, including a book or article ography is published in print and online. The Late Antiquity online database includes all volumes of the an- • Several export formats nual index, beginning with Volume I published • More than 860,000 bibliographic (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, in 1928. Both the online and print publications records and 510,000 review Microsoft Office Word) are now available via Brepols Publishers. references • Multi-lingual interface • About 14,000 records added • Metrics component that enables annually users to examine in detail trends • More than 1,000 journals in Classics, see journal profiles Subject Areas indexed (e.g. information on subjects and periods covered), and find • Records include abstracts for L’Année philologique authors’ publication profiles covers a wide array of articles, citations of reviews for subjects, including Greek and Latin litera- monographs, and tables of • Compatible with OpenURL, ture and linguistics—which includes early contents for edited volumes facilitating linkage to full text Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philoso- • Multiple search fields: author, title, • Email alerts phy, religion, mythology, music, science, and year of publication, subject, etc. scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.

Abstracts of journal articles are provided in English, German, Spanish, French, or Italian. Book entries may include tables of contents and book review information.

Related Databases

• Live links to ancient authors and texts in the Library of Latin Texts published by Brepols and to external full-text resources on the Classical Works Knowledge Base , including PHI Classical Texts, Perseus Digital Library and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.

12 Bibliographies International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) Multidisciplinary Bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500)

The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medi- Key Features eval Academy of America, with the aim of pro- viding a comprehensive, current bibliography of • More than 480,000 bibliographic • Multilingual interface (English, articles in journals and miscellany volumes (con- records French, German, Spanish and ference proceedings, essay collections or Fest- Italian) schriften) worldwide. Its editorial staff is based • Academic partner: Institute for at the Institute for Medieval Studies at the Uni- Medieval Studies (University of • Use of Boolean and truncation versity of Leeds, and the project is supported by Leeds) operators over 50 teams of contributors in Europe, North • Every bibliographical record is fully America, Australia and Japan. • Email alerts in order to stay up classified The International Medieval Bibliography compris- to date with new research es 480,000 articles, all of which are fully clas- • Numerous search fields: author, • Metrics component sified by date, subject and location, and provide title, year of publication, subject, full bibliographical records. The IMB offers an place, period, person, etc. • Embeddable search widget unparalleled tool for medievalists to identify the • Choice of simple or advanced • Compatible with OpenURL, contents of current work published throughout search facilitating linkage to full text Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. • Auto-complete function • Including DOI-links to view online full text of article Subject Areas • Automatic counting of number of responses for each search term The research areas to which the IMB is rel- • Several export formats (EndNote, evant include Classics, English Language and RefWorks, Microsoft Office Word) Literature, History and Archaeology, Theolo- gy and Philosophy, Medieval European Lan- guages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhet- oric and Communication Studies.

Related Databases

• Live links to the Lexicon des Mittelalters and the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.

• The IMB shares the same interface as Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM) and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR), enabling simul­ taneous cross-database searching of more than 900,000 records.

• Together, L’année philologique (covering Antiquity), the IMB, the BCM and the IBHR cover more than 3,000 years of human history.

Bibliographies 13 Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM) A comprehensive current bibliography of monographs covering all fields of Medieval Studies

The Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale has been established by the Centre d’Études Key Features Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (Univer- sité de Poitiers) and aims to provide a com- • More than 65,000 bibliographic • Automatic counting of number of prehensive, current bibliography of mono- records of monographs responses for each search term graphs worldwide and listings of miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay col- • Academic partner: the Centre • Several export formats (EndNote, lections or Festschriften). The Bibliographie d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation RefWorks, Microsoft Office Word) de civilisation médiévale currently comprises Médiévale (Université de Poitiers) • Multilingual interface (English, more than 65,000 titles from 1958 to 2019; • Every bibliographical record is French, German, Spanish and i.e. the whole of the relevant elements from fully classified Italian) the famous bibliography in the Cahiers de ci- vilisation médiévale. Every reference has been • Numerous search fields: author, • Use of Boolean and truncation fully classified by date, subject and location, title, year of publication, subject, operators and provides full bibliographical records. place, period, person, etc. • Compatible with OpenURL, • Choice of simple or advanced facilitating linkage to full text search • Auto-complete function Subject Areas

The disciplines to which the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale is relevant include all aspects of History, Language and Litera- ture, Philosophy and Theology, Art History, Archaeology, and so forth in the Western, Byzantine and Islamic worlds.

Related Databases

• Fully integrated with the International Medieval Bibliography and the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance, users can either search the bibliographical records of all three databases simultaneously, or select only one of the three bibliographies.

• Live links to the Lexikon des Mittelalters and the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.

14 Bibliographies Bibliographie de civilisation International Bibliography médiévale (BCM) of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR)

A Multidisciplinary Bibliography of the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period (1500-1700)

The International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR) is the international Key Features reference bibliography of academic publica- tions on the Renaissance and the early mod- • More than 410,000 bibliographic • Several export formats ern period. The IBHR is a continuation of the Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et records (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, Microsoft Office Word) de la Renaissance, coordinated and published • 20,000 records added annually by Librairie Droz since 1965. Brepols acquired • Multi-lingual interface • 900 journals regularly checked the rights to the bibliography in 2013 and has • Compatible with OpenURL, since been working on updating the content, • A comprehensive cataloguing and facilitating linkage to full text extending the coverage, and building new indexing system, using familiar, software to support the online edition of the multilingual terminology • DOI links bibliography. • English and French thesaurus • Email alerts • Numerous search fields: author, title, year of publication, subject, etc. Subject Areas

The bibliography focuses on European his- tory and culture and encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, ranging from religious history through to philosophy, science and the arts; and from military and political his- tory through to social and gender studies.

Related Databases

• The IBHR shares the same interface as the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM), enabling simultaneous cross-database searching of more than 900,000 bibliograpic records. Together, they cover 14 centuries of European history from 300 to 1700.

• Together, L’année philologique (covering Antiquity), the IMB, the BCM and the IBHR cover more than 3,000 years of human history.

Bibliographies 15 Index Religiosus (IR) International Bibliography of Theology, Church History and Religious Studies

The new reference index for academic publications in Theology, Religious Studies and Church History

The Index Religiosus endeavours to become the international reference bibliography for Key Features academic publications in Theology and Re- ligious Studies. It covers publications written in • More than 630,000 bibliographic • Ability to query the database from various European languages (English, French, records and 140,000 review Bible Verses, the Tenets of Canon German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, etc.) and is the references are searchable Law, or the Dead Sea Scrolls result of collaboration between the Catho- lic University of Louvain and the KU Leuven, • More than 20,000 new records • Several export formats (Endnote, which are both recognized internationally for every year Microsoft Office Word, Refworks, their excellence in the field of Theology and Zotero, etc.). • Over 1,000 journals Religious Studies. systematically checked • Ability to create email alerts with notification of new publications The new bibliography begins from the basis of • Multilingual Interface (English, two existing bibliographies: the bibliography of French, Spanish, Italian and • Compatible with OpenURL, the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the German) facilitating linking to full-text Elenchus Bibliographicus from the journal • Indexing in English and French • DOI links to articles in journals and Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. These miscellany volumes two tools are internationally recognized as es- • Extensive search possibilities sential working instruments for Theology and (Author, Title, Year of Publication, • Links to Google books Religious Studies. ISBN / ISSN, Geographic Area, Discipline, Period, Keyword, Since January 2014, the printed version of Person, etc.). the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclé- siastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus have been replaced by the Index Religiosus.

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• Direct links to the Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages, and the Lexikon des Mittelalters.

16 Bibliographies Index Religiosus (IR) Bibliography of International Bibliography of Theology, British and Irish History (BBIH) Church History and Religious Studies The first reference point for the study of British and Irish history

The Bibliography of British and Irish History Online provides bibliographic data on historical Key Features writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and Commonwealth includ- • More than 600,000 bibliographic • Multilingual interface (English, French, ing the American colonies, during all periods records German, Spanish and Italian) for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. • 12,000 records added annually • Email alerts in order to stay up to In addition to 600,000+ bibliographical records, date with new research • Academic partners: The Royal BBIH offers links to online catalogues to help Historical Society and the Institute • Metrics component you find the items that it lists in reseach librar- of Historical Research ies in Britain and Ireland. It also provides links to • Embeddable search widget the full text where available. • Numerous search fields: author, title, • Compatible with OpenURL, year of publication, subject, place, facilitating linkage to full text The bibliography is a guide to the work of his- precise date range, person, etc. torians - it does not contain original sources, • Ability to find out more about • Choice of simple or advanced unless they have been edited and republished people covered using the integrated search by historians (except for a selection of key links with the Oxford Dictionary of sources published before 1901). • Auto-complete function National Biography, the National The bibliography lists books, articles in books Register of Archives and Who Was • Automatic counting of number of and articles in journals. Over 750 journals and Who responses for each search term series are regularly checked for new content. • Also including links to British History • Several export formats (EndNote, Online, Reviews in History, H-Albion RefWorks, Microsoft Office Word, Reviews, Google Books, and COPAC Zotero)

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• Apart from BBIH, Brepols publishes a wide range of other online bibliographies: L’année philologique (covering Antiquity), the Interna- tional Medieval Bibliography, the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (covering the Middle Ages), and the International Bibliography of Hu- manism and the Renaissance (covering Early Modern History).

Bibliographies 17 New

Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques Online (DPhA)

A comprehensive reference work on the lives and works of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers

The Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques is devoted to philosophers and important Key Features witnesses of the Greek and Roman philoso- phical tradition, from the Presocratics to the • Online version of the Dictionnaire • About 2,970 articles on ancient late Neoplatonists of the sixth century. The des philosophes antiques (including philosophers articles, prepared by French and foreign scho- the annexes and updates), lars, make use not only of literary sources, • Available on BREPOLiS as a published between 1989 and but also of inscriptions and papyri. In total, one-time purchase 2018 under the direction of 236 editors from 20 different countries have Richard Goulet contributed to this unique and large-scale en- terprise, which started its first volume in 1989 and consists of seven volumes – including a fifth volume in two parts – and a supplement.

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18 Encyclopaedias Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA) The Standard Encyclopaedia for Medieval Studies

The Lexikon des Mittelalters is an indispensable tool for medievalists across all disciplines. It deals Key Features with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD for the whole • Content: 36,700 signed articles by • Fully searchable in English and of Europe and parts of Western Asia and North 3,000 authors, providing unrivalled German of headwords and Africa. The ancient roots of Western civilisation, coverage of the European Middle subjects as well as neighbouring civilisations, such as the Ages from the world’s leading Byzantine, the Arabic and the Jewish, occupy a • Multilingual interface (English, encyclopaedia (published 1977-1999) prominent position in the encyclopaedia. The French, German, Spanish and information of the printed edition has been en- • Enriched with about 2,500 entries Italian) riched by Brepols Publishers with English head- and subentries from the International words and live links to a Cumulative Bibliogra- Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages – A phy (via the International Medieval Bibliography Supplement to LexMA and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale). LexMA is fully integrated with the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages – Supplement to LexMA, a new encyclopaedia offering supple- ments that complete or supplement the cover- age already offered by LexMA.

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• Live links to a bibliography of articles (Inter- national Medieval Bibliography) and to a bib- liography of monographs (Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale)

Europa Sacra

The most comprehensive tool for studying Church prelates from the Early Church to the Early Modern Period

The lists of bishops produced in Eubel’s Hierarchia catholica medii aevi... ab anno 1198 and Gams’ Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae still represent the most comprehensive tool Related Databases for studying the prelates of the Church from the Early Church to the Early Modern Period. • Other encyclopaedic databases on BREPOLiS: It contains prosopographical information Lexikon des Mittelalters and Dictionnaire on 30,000 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs. d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques.

Encyclopaedias 19 Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie Ecclésiastiques (DHGE)

An incomparable source of information for anyone interested in the history of the Church

The Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ec- clésiastiques Online (DHGE) is an unparalleled Key Features source of information for anyone interested in the history of the Church. The DHGE has a • 32 volumes, 75,000 entries • Multilingual interface wide coverage, including all continents and the and sub-entries (English, French, German, period spanning Antiquity to the present day. Spanish and Italian) The Dictionnaire’s entries are divided into three • 1,000 entries added annually distinct groups based on whether they deal • Entries are divided in three • Academic responsibility: with people, places or institutions. distinct groups: people, the Katholieke Universiteit places or institutions Leuven and the Université The people that are included in the Dic- Catholique de Louvain • Wide geographical and tionnaire are those who have played a role in chronological coverage the history of the Church either through their • Text fully searchable work or their writings. The second type of en- try in the Dictionnaire deals with the Church’s geographic history. Independently of the religious history of each country, the entries alongside the maps provide a history of the ecclesiastical provinces, i.e. the dioceses. As far as possible, a complete list of the bishops of each diocese concludes each monograph. The history and development of abbeys, priories and famous religious places can also be found in the Dictionnaire and, here also, there is a list of the abbots, or superiors associated with each one. The last group are entries dedi- cated to the main ecclesiastical institutions described from a purely historical perspective.

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• Live links to the bibliographic records of the Index Religiosus • Enrichment with more than 4,400 biographical notes on bishops, drawn from the reference work Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches

20 Encyclopaedias In Principio (INPR) Incipit Index of Latin Texts

An invaluable research tool for the study of the writers, texts and manuscripts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

Those who are interested in the writers, texts and manuscripts of Antiquity and the Key Features Middle Ages know how difficult it is to iden- tify a particular work encountered by chance • Over 1.3 million records from • Approximately 25,000 new entries in a manuscript, or, when studying or publishing three major institutions and each year a particular text, to make an inventory of all libraries, supplemented with a the manuscripts in which it appears. • A search screen providing guidance growing number of individual by offering ten search fields that collections The incipit or first words of a work thus re- enable precise searching main the surest means of designating it unam- • Partners: the Institut de • Multilingual search interface biguously. In a sense, the incipit, by virtue of its Recherche et d’Histoire des (English, French, German) invariability, is the identity card of the text. Textes, the Hill Museum & Standing apart from the diversity of attribu- Manuscript Library and the tions and titles, the incipit guarantees the pres- Bibliothèque Nationale de ence of a particular text.

The incipit serves as a link between the text and the manuscript. The search software of In Principio enables to answer two main ques- tions about the incipit:

• who is the author and what is the title of the text?

• which manuscripts contain the text?

Genres included

The database includes all literary genres: the liberal arts and theology, history and poetry, medicine and liturgy, civil law and canon law, the exact and occult sciences, summas and sermons, glossaries and correspondence, cooking recipes and cursing formulas, large treatises and small, isolated sentences.

Stand-alone Databases 21 Répertoire des traductions françaises des Pères de l’Église (RTF) A unique source of information for the religious literature of Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

The Répertoire des traductions françaises des Pères de l’Église (RTF) is an indispensable tool Key Features for identifying and finding the translations of the works of Church Fathers. The about 12,000 index cards dedicated to the French • An irreplaceable research tool • Search screen with several search- translations of Latin, Greek and Eastern Fa- for the study of the texts of the able fields (author, title, reference), thers are the work of Father Jacques Marcotte Greek, Latin and Eastern Fathers allowing a precise search of Saint-Wandrille Abbey. (from the second to the begin- • Search interface in two languages ning of the ninth century) The RTF is a unique source of information for (French – English) the religious literature of Antiquity and the • Gives all the references to com- beginning of the Middle Ages. Although some plete translations of a work and scholarly editions list the French translations translations of excerpts (and those in other languages as well), none • Contains 12,363 sheets: of them take into account the partial transla- • Greek Fathers: 6,180 tions. The database offers for the first time a • Latin Fathers: 3,836 methodical census. Because of its scale, the RTF • Eastern Fathers: 1,700 has no equivalent either in the French-speak- • Apocrypha: 647 ing world or in any other linguistic region.

Professor Benoît Gain (Université de Greno- ble Alpes), having read this repertoire in its entirety, has devoted himself to its promotion in order to facilitate scholarly research. In or- der to make its use easier, he has established a list of acronyms and abbrevations, and he has written a general presentation of the whole database.

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22 Stand-alone Databases 22 Ut per litteras apostolicas... Papal Letters (LITPA) More than 250,000 documents providing insights into the most varied aspects of medieval society Papal Letters represents an electronic version of the celebrated Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle (32 vols.: Rome,1883- ) and the Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle (48 vols.: Rome, 1899- ). Furthermore, it contains unpublished material (litterae communes of Gregory XI from 1371 to 1375 and the regis- ters of petitions of Urbain V).

Subject Areas

Papal Letters provides striking information on the most varied aspects of medieval so- ciety: church institutions, the clergy, the pa- pal states, politics, the legal system, taxation, government and finance, secular society, the religious life, intellectual and artistic life, the economy, wars, law and order, the environ- ment and natural disasters, and daily life.

Vetus Latina Database (VLD) Bible Versions of the Latin Fathers The comprehensive patristic records of the Vetus The huge panoply of Latin biblical texts that Latina Institut in Beuron were in existence and use from their first ap- pearance in the second century AD until the time when, for each of the Bible books, one of them became predominant and unanimously accepted or “Vulgate”, are known as the Vetus Latina or Old Latin Bible. The direct textual tradition of the Vetus Latina is meager: due to Key Features the eventual success of the Vulgate, the older translations were no longer copied so that only • Contains the comprehensive patristic • The complete repertorium of a limited number of Bible manuscripts predating (Kirchenschriftsteller- the Carolingian era are extant. Moreover, these records of the Vetus Latina Institut in H. J. Frede Verzeichnis und Sigel, often supply only fragments of the biblical story. Beuron Freiburg, 1995) can be consulted online As a result, the basic sources for the Old Latin • Over 800,000 biblical citations Bible are the biblical citations or allusions found within the application, as well as within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek the repertorium’s regular updates patristic authors who were translated into Latin by Professor Gryson at an early date.

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