Catalog
Databases Introductions 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.
\[search the [catalog|https://librarycat.drew.edu] with the key words Corpus and Clavis to turn these up\]
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 Whitehead Research Project|http://whiteheadresearch.org/occasions/news/2010-09-11-Inauguration_of_CEW.shtml]
_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, Origen, 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]
[LexisNexis|http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/]
[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 \[Ref 903 N532n\]
and see: [CHIST250|https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=25396837]
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://librarycat.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 .... \[e.g. women and England\]
Source material: add "Sources" to any topic
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]
[LexixNexis|http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/]
[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] Wiki Markup
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
- Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception [Ref. BS440 .E539]
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- The Lives of Great Religious Books (series from Princeton) (example)
- 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 (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....
- The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale) [BX7117 .E3; see esp. v. 1, "Note on the text," p. 118]
- The Whitehead Research Project
- The Works of George Santayana (MIT) [see especially catalog record, The Last Puritan]
Translations (Patristics, Medieval Studies)
- Guides to choosing
- Bibliographies in Encyclopedia of Religion
- 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
- 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
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
- Patrologia Latina [also in print, with Patrologia Graeca: 281.1 M635; NB: these are not critical editions]
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
- Google Books
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- America's Historical Newspapers
- New York Times Historical
- LexisNexis
- American Decades: Primary Sources
- And see: American History: Primary Sources Online
Encyclopedias
- Online
- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [Ref BR95 .O8]
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation [Ref BR302.8 .O93 ]
- Encyclopedia of Religion in America [Ref. B2520 E52]
- New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1st and 2nd eds, 1967 and 2003 [Ref BX841 .N44; online]
- Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (e.g. Poverty)
- Encyclopedia of World Poverty (e.g. History of Poverty)
- Salem History: Decades
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (e.g. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
- Credo Reference
- Oxford Reference Online
- Print: finding them
- First stop: Reference Universe
- New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, 2008- [Ref BR95 .W496]
- Encyclopedia of the Early Church, 1992 [Ref. BR66.5 .D5813 ]
- Patrology, by Johannes Quasten, 1984-2006 [Ref. BR67 .Q3 ]
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 1982-1989 [Ref. D114 .O94 ]
- Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, 2006 [Ref. HQ1147 .E85 W66]
- Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 2004 [Ref BX4811.3 .E53 ]
- Encyclopedia of American Religious History, 3rd ed., 2009 [Ref BL2525 .Q44]
- Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience, 1988 [Ref. BL2525 .E53]
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005 [Ref CB9 .N49]
- and see:CHST503
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
- 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
- L'anne philologique
- International Medieval Bibliography
- Feminae
- Historical Abstracts
- America: History and Life
- LexisNexis
- Readers Guide Retrospective
- JSTOR
- Project Muse
- Academic Search Premier
Public Websites
- Recommended websites in history
- Wabash Center (for history sites)