A very brief introduction to sources for the study of Jesuit history at Boston College.
Scope Note
Boston College's collection of material related to the Jesuits is enormous and varied and spans all of the university's libraries. This list is designed to suggest some starting places.
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Gateway to a digital collection of materials related to the Jesuits at BC. Includes official publications, letters and other documents by prominent Jesuits, histories of the society, and much more
Over seventy historiographical essays addressing a multitude of topical and geographical approaches to Jesuit history, providing "summaries of key texts from the earlier literature, painstaking surveys of more recent work, and digests of archival and online resources." An open access resource, JHO is supported by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.
Premier index of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and dissertations pertaining to the study of United States and Canadian History, from prehistory to the present. Coverage is 1910-present.
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Premier index of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and dissertations pertaining to the study of World History (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America), from 1450 to the present. Coverage is 1955-present.
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This full text database contains Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, an extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from other leading editions. Series A and Series B are meant to complement one another. The Cross Database Searchtool (listed next to LLT) allows searching Series A and B together.