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The Online Hagiography Sourcebook provides an annotated collection of scientific material on hagiographic research from the entire Middle Ages available on the internet and is thus a centralised contact point for researchers world-wide. We compiled digitally available primary sources, secondary literature and other relevant digital publications, i.e. blogs.
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Are you looking for introductions to saints, sanctity and hagiography? This way.
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If you are looking for a specific region, era or type, please consult the table below.

 

Type

Era

Region

Basic informations

Late Antiquity

Europe

Bibliography

Early Middle Ages

Scandinavia

Blog

High Middle Ages

Spain

Dictionary

Late Middle Ages

World

Link Collection

Early Modern Era

 

Research

Modern Era

 

Sourcebook

 

 

Sources

 

 

 

 

 

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Basic informations

Franciscan authors, 13th -18th century

Commentary: alphabetical; non-academical; has some further links to  preaching ang historiography of Saints

Type: Basic informations

Era:  High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Maarten van der Heijden, Bert Roest

Last Updated:11.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/

 

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Thesaurus der Heiligen

Commentary: says in which opus the Saints were named; there is also a Thesaurus of the authors and of the opuses

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Last Updated: 02.05.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/heilige.html

 

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Bibliography

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

Bibliothek der Kirchenväter

Commentary: sorted by author; texts of different clerical authors

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Gregor Emmenegger

Last Updated: 02.06.2016

Language: english; german

Link: http://www.unifr.ch/bkv/index.htm

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Medieval Studies Hagiography

Commentary: sorted by type

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Charles D. Wright

Last Updated: 03.09.2013

Language: english

Link: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/resources/library/hagiog_000.html

Ménestrel

Commentary: some sites only in french; lists the most useful links

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Christine Ducourtieux

Last Updated: 22.03.2016

Language: english, french

Link: http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?rubrique427&lang=en&art=en

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

 

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Blog

Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)

Commentary: not much informations in the posts, many links are broken, rarely updated

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Sylvie Joye

Last Updated: 16.01.2016

Language: french

Link: http://haghis.blogspot.de/

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

Roger Pearse Webblog

Commentary: has got a list of interesting and helpfuk links; has got an alternative access to the Acta Sanctorum (http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2012/06/19/volumes-of-the-acta-sanctorum-online/)

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Roger Pearse

Last Updated: 30.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/


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Dictionary

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

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Link Collection

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

Netserf

Commentary: has got very vew links; has got information about some saints

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Andrea A. Harbin

Last Updated: 2014

Language: english

Link: http://www.netserf.org/People/Religious/Saints_Martyrs/

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

 

University of Leeds: Medieval Resources Online

Commentary: clear; also includes many helpful links to other topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Axel Müller

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english 

Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/medresource.html#cult

 

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Research

AISSCA

Commentary: only italian publications; has a few more links

Type: Research

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e dell'agiografia

Last Updated: 2015

Language: italian

Link: http://www.aisscaweb.it/

 

Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Commentary: informations about the "Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen"

Type: Research Group

Era: Early Middle Ages; HIgh Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Last Updated:

Language: german

Link: http://www.akademie-rs.de/geschichte_ak_hagiographie.html

 

Biblioteca Retí Medíevalí

Commentary: not only hagiography; search only possible by author

Type: Research

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Andrea Zorzi

Last Updated:

Language: italian

Link:http://www.rmoa.unina.it/view/subjects/D111.html

 

Hagiografía Hispánica

Commentary: has got a free access to many sources, editions, bibliographies, research and interesting helpful links

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Fernando Baños Vallejo, Marinela Garcia Sempere

Last Updated:

Language: spanish, catalan

Link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/hagiografia_hispanica/presentacion/

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

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Sourcebook

Hagiografía Hispánica

Commentary: has got a free access to many sources, editions, bibliographies, research and interesting helpful links

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Fernando Baños Vallejo, Marinela Garcia Sempere

Last Updated:

Language: spanish, catalan

Link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/hagiografia_hispanica/presentacion/

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

 

Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Commentary: 32 sources from nordic countries

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: 

Last Updated: 26.03.2016

Language: english

Link: http://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue

 

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Sources

Acta Sanctorum Database

Commentary: access only, if your institution has a free trial

Type: Database of sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Société de Bollandistes

Last Updated: 2015

Language: english

Link: http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/

 

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

Digitalisation of the Vitae Sanctorum Danorum

Commentary: digitalisation with basic informations

Type: Sources

Era: High Middle Ages

Author: Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

Last Updated: 01.04.2014

Language: denish, english, german

Link: http://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/image/PPN834949911/1/

 

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Hagiografía Hispánica

Commentary: has got a free access to many sources, editions, bibliographies, research and interesting helpful links

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Fernando Baños Vallejo, Marinela Garcia Sempere

Last Updated:

Language: spanish, catalan

Link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/hagiografia_hispanica/presentacion/

 

Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Commentary: 32 sources from nordic countries

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: 

Last Updated: 26.03.2016

Language: english

Link: http://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue

 

Patrologia Graeca

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Graeca (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, greek, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/graeca/

 

Patrologia Latina

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Latina (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/latina/

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

 

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

 

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Late Antiquity

Acta Sanctorum Database

Commentary: access only, if your institution has a free trial

Type: Database

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Société de Bollandistes

Last Updated: 2015

Language: english

Link: http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/

 

AISSCA

Commentary: only italian publications; has a few more links

Type: Research

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e dell'agiografia

Last Updated: 2015

Language: italian

Link: http://www.aisscaweb.it/

 

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

Bibliothek der Kirchenväter

Commentary: sorted by author; texts of different clerical authors

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Gregor Emmenegger

Last Updated: 02.06.2016

Language: english; german

Link: http://www.unifr.ch/bkv/index.htm

 

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

 

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors and other helpful links

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)

Commentary: not much informations in the posts, many links are broken, rarely updated

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Sylvie Joye

Last Updated: 16.01.2016

Language: french

Link: http://haghis.blogspot.de/

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp


Medieval Studies Hagiography

Commentary: sorted by type

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Charles D. Wright

Last Updated: 03.09.2013

Language: english

Link: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/resources/library/hagiog_000.html

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

Netserf

Commentary: has got very vew links; has got information about some saints

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Andrea A. Harbin

Last Updated: 2014

Language: english

Link: http://www.netserf.org/People/Religious/Saints_Martyrs/

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

 

Patrologia Graeca

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Graeca (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, greek, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/graeca/

 

Patrologia Latina

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Latina (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/latina/

 

Roger Pearse Webblog

Commentary: has got a list of interesting and helpfuk links; has got an alternative access to the Acta Sanctorum (http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2012/06/19/volumes-of-the-acta-sanctorum-online/)

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Roger Pearse

Last Updated: 30.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/

 

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Thesaurus der Heiligen

Commentary: says in which opus the Saints were named; there is also a Thesaurus of the authors and of the opuses

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Last Updated: 02.05.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/heilige.html

 

University of Leeds: Medieval Resources Online

Commentary: clear; also includes many helpful links to other topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Axel Müller

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english 

Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/medresource.html#cult

 

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Early Middle Ages

Acta Sanctorum Database

Commentary: access only, if your institution has a free trial

Type: Database

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Société de Bollandistes

Last Updated: 2015

Language: english

Link: http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/

 

AISSCA

Commentary: only italian publications; has a few more links

Type: Research

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e dell'agiografia

Last Updated: 2015

Language: italian

Link: http://www.aisscaweb.it/

 

Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Commentary: informations about the "Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen"

Type: Research Group

Era: Early Middle Ages; HIgh Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Last Updated:

Language: german

Link: http://www.akademie-rs.de/geschichte_ak_hagiographie.html

 

Biblioteca Retí Medíevalí

Commentary: not only hagiography; search only possible by author

Type: Research

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Andrea Zorzi

Last Updated:

Language: italian

Link:http://www.rmoa.unina.it/view/subjects/D111.html

 

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

Bibliothek der Kirchenväter

Commentary: sorted by author; texts of different clerical authors

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Gregor Emmenegger

Last Updated: 02.06.2016

Language: english; german

Link: http://www.unifr.ch/bkv/index.htm

 

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

 

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors and other helpful links

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)

Commentary: not much informations in the posts, many links are broken, rarely updated

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Sylvie Joye

Last Updated: 16.01.2016

Language: french

Link: http://haghis.blogspot.de/

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

 

Medieval Studies Hagiography

Commentary: sorted by type

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Charles D. Wright

Last Updated: 03.09.2013

Language: english

Link: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/resources/library/hagiog_000.html

 

Ménestrel

Commentary: some sites only in french; lists the most useful links

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Christine Ducourtieux

Last Updated: 22.03.2016

Language: english, french

Link: http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?rubrique427&lang=en&art=en

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

Netserf

Commentary: has got very vew links; has got information about some saints

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Andrea A. Harbin

Last Updated: 2014

Language: english

Link: http://www.netserf.org/People/Religious/Saints_Martyrs/

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

 

Patrologia Graeca

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Graeca (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, greek, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/graeca/

 

Patrologia Latina

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Latina (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/latina/

 

Roger Pearse Webblog

Commentary: has got a list of interesting and helpfuk links; has got an alternative access to the Acta Sanctorum (http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2012/06/19/volumes-of-the-acta-sanctorum-online/)

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Roger Pearse

Last Updated: 30.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/

 

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Thesaurus der Heiligen

Commentary: says in which opus the Saints were named; there is also a Thesaurus of the authors and of the opuses

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Last Updated: 02.05.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/heilige.html

 

University of Leeds: Medieval Resources Online

Commentary: clear; also includes many helpful links to other topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Axel Müller

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english 

Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/medresource.html#cult

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

 

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

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High Middle Ages

Acta Sanctorum Database

Commentary: access only, if your institution has a free trial

Type: Database

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Société de Bollandistes

Last Updated: 2015

Language: english

Link: http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/

 

AISSCA

Commentary: only italian publications; has a few more links

Type: Research

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e dell'agiografia

Last Updated: 2015

Language: italian

Link: http://www.aisscaweb.it/

 

Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Commentary: informations about the "Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen"

Type: Research Group

Era: Early Middle Ages; HIgh Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Last Updated:

Language: german

Link: http://www.akademie-rs.de/geschichte_ak_hagiographie.html

 

Biblioteca Retí Medíevalí

Commentary: not only hagiography; search only possible by author

Type: Research

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Andrea Zorzi

Last Updated:

Language: italian

Link:http://www.rmoa.unina.it/view/subjects/D111.html

 

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

 

Digitalisation of the Vitae Sanctorum Danorum

Commentary: digitalisation with basic informations

Type: Sources

Era: High Middle Ages

Author: Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

Last Updated: 01.04.2014

Language: denish, english, german

Link: http://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/image/PPN834949911/1/

 

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors and other helpful links

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Franciscan authors, 13th -18th century

Commentary: alphabetical; non-academical; alphabetical; has some further links to  preaching ang historiography of Saints

Type: Basic informations

Era:  High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Maarten van der Heijden, Bert Roest

Last Updated:11.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/

 

Hagiografía Hispánica

Commentary: has got a free access to many sources, editions, bibliographies, research and interesting helpful links

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Fernando Baños Vallejo, Marinela Garcia Sempere

Last Updated:

Language: spanish, catalan

Link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/hagiografia_hispanica/presentacion/

 

Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)

Commentary: not much informations in the posts, many links are broken, rarely updated

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Sylvie Joye

Last Updated: 16.01.2016

Language: french

Link: http://haghis.blogspot.de/

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

 

Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Commentary: 32 sources from nordic countries

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: 

Last Updated: 26.03.2016

Language: english

Link: http://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue

 

Medieval Studies Hagiography

Commentary: sorted by type

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Charles D. Wright

Last Updated: 03.09.2013

Language: english

Link: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/resources/library/hagiog_000.html

 

Ménestrel

Commentary: some sites only in french; lists the most useful links

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Christine Ducourtieux

Last Updated: 22.03.2016

Language: english, french

Link: http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?rubrique427&lang=en&art=en

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

Netserf

Commentary: has got very vew links; has got information about some saints

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Andrea A. Harbin

Last Updated: 2014

Language: english

Link: http://www.netserf.org/People/Religious/Saints_Martyrs/

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

 

Patrologia Graeca

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Graeca (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, greek, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/graeca/

 

Patrologia Latina

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Latina (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/latina/

 

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Thesaurus der Heiligen

Commentary: says in which opus the Saints were named; there is also a Thesaurus of the authors and of the opuses

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Last Updated: 02.05.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/heilige.html

 

University of Leeds: Medieval Resources Online

Commentary: clear; also includes many helpful links to other topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Axel Müller

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english 

Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/medresource.html#cult

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

 

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

 

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Late Middle Ages

Acta Sanctorum Database

Commentary: access only, if your institution has a free trial

Type: Database

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Société de Bollandistes

Last Updated: 2015

Language: english

Link: http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/

 

AISSCA

Commentary: only italian publications; has a few more links

Type: Research

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e dell'agiografia

Last Updated: 2015

Language: italian

Link: http://www.aisscaweb.it/

 

Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Commentary: informations about the "Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen"

Type: Research Group

Era: Early Middle Ages; HIgh Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Last Updated:

Language: german

Link: http://www.akademie-rs.de/geschichte_ak_hagiographie.html

 

Biblioteca Retí Medíevalí

Commentary: not only hagiography; search only possible by author

Type: Research

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Andrea Zorzi

Last Updated:

Language: italian

Link:http://www.rmoa.unina.it/view/subjects/D111.html

 

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors and other helpful links

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Franciscan authors, 13th -18th century

Commentary: alphabetical; non-academical; alphabetical; has some further links to  preaching ang historiography of Saints

Type: Basic informations

Era:  High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Maarten van der Heijden, Bert Roest

Last Updated:11.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/

 

Hagiografía Hispánica

Commentary: has got a free access to many sources, editions, bibliographies, research and interesting helpful links

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Fernando Baños Vallejo, Marinela Garcia Sempere

Last Updated:

Language: spanish, catalan

Link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/hagiografia_hispanica/presentacion/

 

Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)

Commentary: not much informations in the posts, many links are broken, rarely updated

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Sylvie Joye

Last Updated: 16.01.2016

Language: french

Link: http://haghis.blogspot.de/

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

 

Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Commentary: 32 sources from nordic countries

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: 

Last Updated: 26.03.2016

Language: english

Link: http://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue

 

Medieval Studies Hagiography

Commentary: sorted by type

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Charles D. Wright

Last Updated: 03.09.2013

Language: english

Link: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/resources/library/hagiog_000.html

 

Ménestrel

Commentary: some sites only in french; lists the most useful links

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Christine Ducourtieux

Last Updated: 22.03.2016

Language: english, french

Link: http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?rubrique427&lang=en&art=en

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

Netserf

Commentary: has got very vew links; has got information about some saints

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Andrea A. Harbin

Last Updated: 2014

Language: english

Link: http://www.netserf.org/People/Religious/Saints_Martyrs/

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

 

Patrologia Graeca

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Graeca (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, greek, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/graeca/

 

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Thesaurus der Heiligen

Commentary: says in which opus the Saints were named; there is also a Thesaurus of the authors and of the opuses

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Last Updated: 02.05.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/heilige.html

 

University of Leeds: Medieval Resources Online

Commentary: clear; also includes many helpful links to other topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Axel Müller

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english 

Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/medresource.html#cult

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

 

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

 

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Early Modern Era

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors and other helpful links

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Franciscan authors, 13th -18th century

Commentary: alphabetical; non-academical; alphabetical; has some further links to  preaching ang historiography of Saints

Type: Basic informations

Era:  High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Maarten van der Heijden, Bert Roest

Last Updated:11.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/

 

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

 

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Modern Era

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

 

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Europe

Acta Sanctorum Database

Commentary: access only, if your institution has a free trial

Type: Database

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Société de Bollandistes

Last Updated: 2015

Language: english

Link: http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/

 

AISSCA

Commentary: only italian publications; has a few more links

Type: Research

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e dell'agiografia

Last Updated: 2015

Language: italian

Link: http://www.aisscaweb.it/

 

Biblioteca Retí Medíevalí

Commentary: not only hagiography; search only possible by author

Type: Research

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Andrea Zorzi

Last Updated:

Language: italian

Link:http://www.rmoa.unina.it/view/subjects/D111.html

 

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta

Commentary: very old; bibliography of sources; you have to sign in (for free)

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Xavier Lequeux (Société de Bollandistes)

Last Updated: 07.01.2004

Language: french

Link: http://bhlms.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

 

Bibliothek der Kirchenväter

Commentary: sorted by author; texts of different clerical authors

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Gregor Emmenegger

Last Updated: 02.06.2016

Language: english; german

Link: http://www.unifr.ch/bkv/index.htm

 

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Commentary: links to many sources of catholic authors and other helpful links

Type: Collection of links to sources

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Cooperatorum Veritatis Societas

Last Updated:06.12.2011

Language: english, latin

Link: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/_index.html

 

Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)

Commentary: not much informations in the posts, many links are broken, rarely updated

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Sylvie Joye

Last Updated: 16.01.2016

Language: french

Link: http://haghis.blogspot.de/

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Saints' Lives

Commentary: sorted by time; some links are broken

Type: Sourcebook

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Paul Halsall (Fordham University NY)

Last Updated: 04.11.2011

Language: english

Link: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook3.asp

 

Medieval Studies Hagiography

Commentary: sorted by type

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Charles D. Wright

Last Updated: 03.09.2013

Language: english

Link: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/resources/library/hagiog_000.html

 

Ménestrel

Commentary: some sites only in french; lists the most useful links

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Christine Ducourtieux

Last Updated: 22.03.2016

Language: english, french

Link: http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?rubrique427&lang=en&art=en

 

Mittelalter - Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte

Commentary: Collection of academic blogs of medieval studies

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era

Author: Hypotheses

Last Updated:20.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/

 

Netserf

Commentary: has got very vew links; has got information about some saints

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Dr. Andrea A. Harbin

Last Updated: 2014

Language: english

Link: http://www.netserf.org/People/Religious/Saints_Martyrs/

 

Patrologia Graeca

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Graeca (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, greek, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/graeca/

 

Patrologia Latina

Commentary: some links are broken

Type: Database of the Patrologia Latina (source)

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages

Author: Jacques Paul Migne

Last Updated: 09.08.2012

Language: english, latin

Link: http://patristica.net/latina/

 

The ORB for Medieval Studies

Commentary: sorted by period and topic; has got primary sources and secondary literature; very extensive

Type: Bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Kathryn Talarico

Last Updated: 10.11.2002

Language: english

Link: http://the-orb.arlima.net/index.html

 

Thesaurus der Heiligen

Commentary: says in which opus the Saints were named; there is also a Thesaurus of the authors and of the opuses

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Last Updated: 02.05.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/heilige.html

 

University of Leeds: Medieval Resources Online

Commentary: clear; also includes many helpful links to other topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Axel Müller

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english 

Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/medresource.html#cult

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Scandinavia

Digitalisation of the Vitae Sanctorum Danorum

Commentary: digitalisation with basic informations

Type: Sources

Era: High Middle Ages

Author: Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

Last Updated: 01.04.2014

Language: denish, english, german

Link: http://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/image/PPN834949911/1/

 

Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Commentary: 32 sources from nordic countries

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: 

Last Updated: 26.03.2016

Language: english

Link: http://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue

 

Viking Society Web Publications

Commentary: includes facsimiles,sources, research and journals 

Type: Bibliography

Era: Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Anthony Faulkes

Last Updated: 11.05.2016

Language: english

Link: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/

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Spain

Hagiografía Hispánica

Commentary: has got a free access to many sources, editions, bibliographies, research and interesting helpful links

Type: Sourcebook

Era: High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Fernando Baños Vallejo, Marinela Garcia Sempere

Last Updated:

Language: spanish, catalan

Link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/hagiografia_hispanica/presentacion/

 

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World

Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Commentary: informations about the "Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen"

Type: Research Group

Era: Early Middle Ages; HIgh Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages

Author: Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen

Last Updated:

Language: german

Link: http://www.akademie-rs.de/geschichte_ak_hagiographie.html

 

CatholicSaints.Info

Commentary: short profiles of saints with additional informations like publications or links to other websites 
about the saints; sorted by topics

Type: Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Terry Jones

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://catholicsaints.info/

 

Dictionary of catholic theology

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; additional possibilities like acces to bibles, Islam-websites, some important clerical persons (12th-present)

Type:  Dictionary

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: 

Last Updated: 03.08.2015

Language: french

Link: http://jesusmarie.free.fr/index

 

Franciscan authors, 13th -18th century

Commentary: alphabetical; non-academical; alphabetical; has some further links to  preaching ang historiography of Saints

Type: Basic informations

Era:  High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Maarten van der Heijden, Bert Roest

Last Updated:11.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/

 

Hagiography society

Commentary: lists the most important links to Hagiography

Type: Collection of links; bibliography

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Janine Larmon Peterson

Last Updated: 2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.hagiographysociety.org/

 

Hagiography worldwide

Commentary: many helpful links; sorted by topics

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Société des Bollandistes

Last Updated:

Language: english

Link: http://www.bollandistes.org/online-resources.php?pg=hagiographyworldwide

 

OKI Regensburg - Unsere Linksammlung

Commentary: texts of the Church Fathers; sorted by church

Type: Collection of links

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era; Modern Era; Present

Author: Institute of Eastern Church Regensburg

Last Updated: 09.06.2016

Language: german

Link: http://www.oki-regensburg.de/links.htm

 

Roger Pearse Webblog

Commentary: has got a list of interesting and helpfuk links; has got an alternative access to the Acta Sanctorum (http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2012/06/19/volumes-of-the-acta-sanctorum-online/)

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages

Author: Roger Pearse

Last Updated: 30.06.2016

Language: english

Link: http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/

 

St. Pachomius Library

Commentary: sorted by alphabet; short profiles of the Saints with further links and publications about them

Type: Basic informations

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: 

Last Updated: 07.11.2012

Language: english

Link:  http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html

 

Studies on christian Hagiography

Commentary: can be sorted by topic

Type: Blog

Era: Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; High Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

Author: Panos Volakis

Last Updated:03.01.2016

Language: english, greek

Link: http://saintslives.blogspot.de/

 

Walters Ex Libris

Commentary: has got scans of various manuscripts; can be searched by various terms like for example type, century, culture

Type: Database of sources

Era: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Modern Era, Present

Author: Walters Art Museum

Last Updated: 

Language: english

Link: http://manuscripts.thewalters.org/

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