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Introductions Introduction to historical research

  • Wiki MarkupBradley, James E. and Richard A Muller.  _  Church History: An Introduction to Research{_}_, Reference Works, and Methods._ Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995 \ [Ref. 270.072 B811c\]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 Wiki MarkupDanto, 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)

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  • In the works of antiquity and Middle Ages
    • Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina/Graeca
    • Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Wiki Markup_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
    • Wiki MarkupConsult 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....
    • Wiki Markup_The Works of Jonathan Edwards _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 Projectunmigrated-wiki-markup
    • _The Works of George Santayana _George Santayana (MIT) \ [see especially catalog record, _The Last Puritan_\]

Translations (Patristics, Medieval Studies)

  • Guides to choosing
    • Bibliographies in Encyclopedia of Religion   
    • Wiki MarkupEssays in The Cambridge Companion to The Cambridge Companion to .... \ [e.g. Augustine, Dante, etc\]
  • Examples in series
    • Wiki MarkupLoeb Classical Library \ [Philo, Josephus, Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc\]  
    • Ante-Nicene Fathers; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers   unmigrated-wiki-markup
    • Fathers of the Church of the Church (CUA Press) \ [Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc\]
    • Wiki MarkupClassics of Western Spirituality \ [Origen, Augustine, Hildegard, Julien, etc\]
    • Wiki MarkupLibrary of Christian Classics \ [Clement, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, etc)

Online primary sources fulltext

Encyclopedias

  • Online
  • Print: finding them
    • First stop: Reference Universe
    • Wiki Markup_New Westminster Dictionary of Church History_, 2008\- \ [Ref BR95 .W496\]  
    • Encyclopedia of the Early Church, 1992 Wiki Markup_Encyclopedia of the Early Church_, 1992 \ [Ref. BR66.5 .D5813 \ ]unmigrated-wiki-markup
    • _Patrology_, by Johannes Quasten, 1984-2006 \ [Ref. BR67 .Q3 \ ]
    • Wiki Markup_Dictionary of the Middle Ages_, 1982-1989 \ [Ref. D114 .O94 \ ]unmigrated-wiki-markup
    • _Women and Gender in Medieval Europe_, 2006 \ [Ref. HQ1147 .E85 W66\]
    • Wiki Markup_Encyclopedia of Protestantism_, 2004 \ [Ref BX4811.3 .E53 \ ]
    • Wiki Markup_Encyclopedia of American Religious History_, 3rd ed., 2009 \ [Ref BL2525 .Q44\] Wiki Markup
    • _Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience_, 1988 \ [Ref. BL2525 .E53\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
    • _New Dictionary of the History of Ideas_, 2005 \ [Ref CB9 .N49\]
    • and see: CHIST250CHST503

Bibliography: History Compass

Printed Concordances

  • Wiki Markup_Biblia Patristica_ \ [Ref. BR66.5 .U53\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus_ \ [Ref. PA4224 .R4 \ ]
  • Wiki Markup_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

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  • 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--and Justice–History
    • Poverty Religious Aspects Christianity History of Doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
    • Poor Europe History
    • Christian Sociology--History
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    • su Social Aspects \[or Social Conditions\] and Social Aspects [or Social Conditions] and .... \ [e.g. women and England\]   women and England]   
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