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Databases Wiki MarkupIntroductions to historical research         Bradley, James E. and Richard A Muller.  _Church History: An Introduction to Research_ _            Reference Works, and Methods. _ Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995 \[Ref. 270.072 B811c\]         Danto, Elizabeth Ann.  _Historical Research. _ Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods.             New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. \[Ref. HM 571 .D36\] Primary vs Secondary sources         Primary source: "A document, datum, or artifact that belongs to the era under examination                                 and that offers the most direct access to the person or issues being studied"                                 --James Bradley and Richard Muller, _Church History: An Introduction_ _                                to Research, Reference Works, and Methods_ (Grand Rapids, Mich.:                                  Eerdmans, 1995), 39.         Secondary sources:  "Offer information about an event but stand removed from it either in                                 time or by a process of transmission of information."  +Ibid{+}+, 41.+ Critical editions         In the works of antiquity and Middle Ages             _Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina/Graeca_ _            Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum_             _Patrologia Latina, Graeca_ \[281.1 M635 and [online|http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/1815-1875,_Migne,_Patrologia_Latina_01._Rerum_Conspectus_Pro_Tomis_Ordinatus,_MLT.html]\]             [Thesaurus Linguae Gracae|http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu.ezproxy.drew.edu/inst/fontsel]             Consult the "Clavis" volumes in the Corpus Christianorum series for guidance to critical editions of                     biblical and medieval apocyrypha & pseudepigrapha, and the Greek and Latin fathers.                     \[search the [catalog|https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/log_out/A0aqk2sp.001?screen=welcome.html] with the key words Corpus and Clavis to turn these up\]         In American (religious) history, e.g...             _The Works of Jonathan Edwards _(Yale) \[BX7117 .E3; see esp. v. 1, "[Note on the text|http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9uYXZpZ2F0ZS5wbD93amVvLjA=]," p. 118\]             _The Works of George Santayana _(MIT) \[see especially catalog record, _The Last Puritan_\]             Translations (Patristics, Medieval Studies)         A guide to choosing             Bibliographies in [Encyclopedia of Religion |http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ps/infomark.do?action=interpret&source=library&actionString=DO_DISPLAY_ABOUT_PAGE&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=madi95127&docId=CX3424599999&type=aboutBook&version=1.0&authCount=1&u=madi95127]                       Essays in The Cambridge Companion to .... \[e.g. Augustine, Dante, etc\]         Examples in series             Loeb Classical Library \[Philo, Josephus, Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc\]              [Ante-Nicene Fathers; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers|http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html]                Fathers of the Church (CUA Press) \[Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc\]             Classics of Western Spirituality \[Origen, Augustine, Hildegard, Julien, etc\]             Library of Christian Classics \[Clement, Origin, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, etc) Online primary sources fulltext:          [Christian Classics Ethereal Library|http://www.ccel.org/]          [Thesaurus Linguae Graecae|http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu.ezproxy.drew.edu/inst/fontsel]          [Monumenta Germaniae Historica|http://www.drew.edu/depts/library/er-title.aspx](MGH)          [Google Books|http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp]          [African American Newspapers: The 19th Century|http://www.accessible.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/accessible/preLog]         [America's Historical Newspapers|http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/iw-search/we/HistArchive?p_product=EANX&p_action=timeframes&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=H67K59GRMTMxMTI2NzAyNS42ODI5NDY6MToxMzoxOTIuMTA3LjM5LjE5&p_clear_search=yes&d_refprod=EANX&]         [New York Times Historical|http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTFhY2QmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=10355]          [American Decades: Primary Sources|http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ps/aboutEbook.do?actionString=DO_DISPLAY_ABOUT_PAGE&userGroupName=madi95127&prodId=GVRL&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=GALE|9781414411170&contentSegment=9781414411170]         And see: [American History: Primary Sources Online|https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/American+History-+Primary+Sources+Online] Encyclopedias          [Online|http://www.drew.edu/depts/library/er-subject.aspx?category=E-Reference%20Books]               _[Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church|http://www.oxford-christianchurch.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/?authstatuscode=202]_ \[Ref 230.003 O98o\]               _[Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation|http://www.oxford-reformation.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/?authstatuscode=202]_ \[Ref 270.603 O98o\]               _[Encyclopedia of Religion in America|http://library.cqpress.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/era/?PHPSESSID=6bs7ra0rfb15dc90feitlf9af2]_ \[Ref. B2520 E52\]               _New Catholic Encyclopedia_, 1st and 2nd eds, 1967 and 2003 \[Ref 282.03 E92eE; [online|http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE|5CBD&v=2.1&u=madi95127&it=aboutBook&p=GVRL&sw=w&authCount=1]\]               [Gale Virtual Reference Library|http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=madi95127&authCount=1]               [Credo Reference|http://www.credoreference.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/home.do]               [Oxford Reference Online|http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/views/GLOBAL.html?authstatuscode=200]          Print: finding them               First stop: [Reference Universe|http://refuniv.odyssi.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/cgi-bin/phtml?@landing.htm]               _New Westminster Dictionary of Church History_, 2008\- \[Ref BR95 .W496\]                       _Encyclopedia of the Early Church_, 1992 \[Ref. 270.103 D622dE\]               _Patrology_, by Johannes Quasten, 1984-2006 \[Ref. 281.109 Q1p\]               _Dictionary of the Middle Ages_, 1982-1989 \[Ref. 909.07 D554d\]               _Women and Gender in Medieval Europe_, 2006 \[Ref. 305.409403 W872w\]               _Encyclopedia of Protestantism_, 2004 \[Ref 280.403 E56eE\]               _Encyclopedia of American Religious History_, 3rd ed., 2009 \[Ref BL2525 .Q44\]               _Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience_, 1988 \[Ref. 291.0973 E56e\]               _New Dictionary of the History of Ideas_, 2005 \[Ref 903 N532n\] Bibliography: [History Compass|http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291478-0542 ] Printed Concordances          _Biblia Patristica_ \[Ref. 281.102 U58b\]          _Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus_ \[Ref. 933 J83Z R412c\]          _The Philo Index_: _A Complete Greek Word Index..._ \[181.3 P565Z B732p\] Key journals          _Church History_   _       Journal of Early Christian Studies_   _       Methodist History_  _        Religion and American Culture_   _       Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies_ [Library catalog|https://catalog.drew.edu/]          Browse searching for geographic and period breakdowns               Church History Primitive and Early Church, ca 30-600               United States Church History To 1775          Social History                Christianity and Justice--History                Christian Sociology--History                su Social History and .... \[e.g. monasticism\]                su Social Ethics and  ....  \[e.g. Martin Luther King\]                su Social Aspects \[or Social Conditions\] and .... \[e.g. women and England\]      Periodical Databases          [L'anne philologique|http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/]          [International Medieval Bibliography|http://apps.brepolis.net.ezproxy.drew.edu/bmb/search.cfm]          [Feminae|http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html]          [Historical Abstracts|http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ehost/search/advanced?sid=f246fb72-a7de-41f9-9a42-ce4bb2847992%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=126]          [America: History and Life |http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ehost/search/advanced?sid=94f03623-1147-46d2-bcdb-6c57ee7a42bd%40sessionmgr113&vid=1&hid=126]         [Readers Guide Retrospective|http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/hww/advancedsearch/advanced_search.jhtml;hwwilsonid=3GAQUUTU14KZTQA3DILCFGGADUNGIIV0?prod=RGR] Other humanities and general databases          [JSTOR |http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.drew.edu/]             [Project Muse|http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.drew.edu/]         [Academic Search Premier|http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ehost/search/advanced?sid=0d976530-8137-46fa-bae1-6a2c4adeb60c%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=126] Recommended [websites in church history|http://delicious.com/DrewULib/religion_theologysites+church_history]

Introduction to historical research

  • Bradley, James E. and Richard A Muller.  Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995 [Ref. 270.072 B811c]

History and the other Areas

Primary vs Secondary sources (from Bradley and Muller, above)

  • Primary source: "A document, datum, or artifact that belongs to the era under examination and that offers the most direct access to the person or issues being studied," p. 39.
  • Secondary sources: "Offer information about an event but stand removed from it either in time or by a process of transmission of information," p. 41.        

Critical editions

  • In the works of antiquity and Middle Ages
    • Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina/Graeca
    • Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
    • Thesaurus Linguae Gracae
    • Consult the "Clavis" volumes in the Corpus Christianorum series for guidance to critical editions of biblical and medieval apocyrypha & pseudepigrapha, and the Greek and Latin fathers [Search the catalog with the key words Corpus and Clavis to turn these up]
  • In American religious history, e.g....

Translations (Patristics, Medieval Studies)

  • Guides to choosing
  • Examples in series
    • Loeb Classical Library [Philo, Josephus, Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc] 
    • Ante-Nicene Fathers; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers   
    • Fathers of the Church (CUA Press) [Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc]
    • Classics of Western Spirituality [Origen, Augustine, Hildegard, Julien, etc]
    • Library of Christian Classics [Clement, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, etc)

Online primary sources fulltext

Encyclopedias

Bibliography: History Compass

Printed Concordances

  • Biblia Patristica [Ref. BR66.5 .U53]
  • Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus [Ref. PA4224 .R4 ]
  • The Philo Index: A Complete Greek Word Index... [Ref.PA4270 .Z5 B67 ]

Key journals

  • Church History
  • Journal of Early Christian Studies
  • Methodist History
  • Religion and American Culture
  • Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Library catalog

  • Browse searching for geographic and period breakdowns
    • Church History Primitive and Early Church, ca 30-600
    • United States Church History To 1775
    • Social History
    • Christianity and Justice–History
    • Poverty Religious Aspects Christianity History of Doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
    • Poor Europe History
    • Christian Sociology--History
  • Subject searching on subheadings
    • su Social History and .... [e.g. monasticism]
    • su Social Ethics and  ....  [e.g. Martin Luther King]
    • su Social Aspects [or Social Conditions] and .... [e.g. women and England]   
  • Source material: add "Sources" to any topic

Periodical Databases

Public Websites