New developments are making the Brepolis databases an increasingly cohesive research environment. This Autumn-Winter 2026 Newsletter highlights some of the most significant recent developments,
All Latin full-text databases now share a common data structure and user interface, facilitating more consistent searching and analysis across Library of Latin Texts (LLT), Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL), Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD) and Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH). To mark this development, Brepolis has introduced an extended trial subscription (2027) at half price for selected Latin text databases, available to existing subscribers to the Library of Latin Texts (LLT).
Following earlier developments in the bibliographies, our encyclopaedic databases now also benefit from a new accessibility-compliant interface. Furthermore, the bibliographies continue to expand their citation coverage through the integration of citation data provided by the Perspecti plugin. These citation data are derived from Perspecti, a forthcoming database that is scheduled for launch in 2027.
We are excited to invite you to a short and practical webinar about the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). During this session, we will walk you through BBIH’s key features so you can make the most of this valuable resource for teaching, researching and studying British and Irish History.
Webinar Details:
Date: October 2, 2026
Time: 14:00 (London, UK) / 9:00 AM (Eastern Time, USA) / 15:00 (Brussels)
Duration: 15-20 minutes, followed by a Q&A session
Speakers:
Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (Editor of the BBIH at the Institute of Historical Research)
Professor Roey Sweet (Academic Director of the BBIH and Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester)
During this session, we will walk you through the features and functionalities of the new interface. This will help you and your patrons make the most of these valuable resources.
To register for the webinar, please fill out the form below:
Please note that you need to register in advance to participate in the webinar. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with further details.
The September 2026 update of Sources Chrétiennes Online (SCO) is now available, adding ten new volumes to the collection and further expanding its coverage from the early Church to medieval Christianity and beyond. The release includes major patristic authors, conciliar documents, hagiographical literature, and a remarkable collection of early Chinese Christian texts.
Nicaea and the Arian Controversy
Several newly added texts shed light on the controversies surrounding the Council of Nicaea and the development of early Christian doctrine:
Sur les décrets du concile de Nicée (SC 649) gathers documents central to the Arian controversy, including letters of Constantine, Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, the Symbolum Nicaenum, and other contemporary texts.
Patristic Theology and Spirituality
The update significantly enriches the corpus of Greek and Latin Christian thought:
Origen’sTreatise on Prayer (SC 650-651) represents one of the foundational Christian texts on prayer and biblical interpretation.
Gregory of Nyssa’sHomilies on the Song of Songs (SC 659) further enriches the corpus of late antique mystical exegesis.
Bernard of Clairvaux’sLiber de gradibus humilitatis (SC 647) offers one of the most influential medieval reflections on humility and monastic spirituality.
Martyrs, Saints, and Christian Memory
New hagiographical material highlights the enduring role of saints and martyrs in Christian culture:
John Chrysostom’sPanegyrics on the Martyrs (SC 648) include sermons on Pelagia, the Maccabean martyrs, Bernice and Prosdoce, and Drosis.
Gregory of Tours’Liber de passione et virtutibus Iuliani (SC 656) preserves the cult and miracles of Saint Julian of Brioude, one of the most important saints of Merovingian Gaul.
Christianity Beyond the Mediterranean World
Textes chrétiens chinois du Haut Moyen Âge (SC 658) brings together a corpus of texts associated with the Christian communities of medieval China. The volume includes doctrinal, liturgical, and poetic works, as well as the famous Xi’an Stele.
Improvements to Existing Dossiers
In addition to the newly added volumes, several works published across multiple Sources Chrétiennes volumes have been upgraded to provide more intuitive navigation and a smoother user experience.
We are pleased to announce that the interface of our encyclopaedias has been updated to meet accessibility standards. This update applies to the following databases:
The July 2026 update of the Library of Latin Texts (LLT) is now available, marking another major expansion of the corpus. This release adds over 3 million words, bringing the database’s total size to more than 173 million words. The update introduces 82 new works, 7 new editions of existing texts, and 2 expanded dossiers.
Late Antiquity: Theological Debates and Updated Editions
This update captures the intense doctrinal conflicts of the fourth and fifth centuries:
Doctrinal diversity is represented by the Homoian Commentarius in Iob, the Libri Adamantii Origenis aduersus haereticos, and Vigilius of Thapsus’ Contra Eutychetem.
Attempts at religious reconciliation can be found in Prosper of Aquitaine’s De uocatione omnium gentium and the correspondence of Pope Pelagius I.
Older texts (mostly from the Patrologia Latina) have been replaced with modern scholarly editions, including treatises by Augustine of Hippo, three funeral orations by Ambrose of Milan, and the Carmen ad Flauium Felicem.
Middle Ages: Encyclopaedism, Science, and Reform
Encyclopaedic writing remains an central focus, featuring Bartholomew of Urbino’s monumental Milleloquium diui Ambrosii (over 1,000 excerpts from Ambrose) and Bartholomew the Englishman’s De proprietatibus rerum.
In the natural sciences, the transmission of Arabic and Hebrew knowledge into Latin Europe is illustrated by Al-Nayrīzī’s commentary on Euclid (tr. Gerard of Cremona) and Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s Liber embadorum (tr. Plato of Tivoli). This material is complemented by several treatises on computus (calendar calculation) by Johannes de Sacrobosco and others.
Texts on (moral) theology include Alan of Lille’s Liber paenitentialis, Radulfus Ardens’ complete Speculum uniuersale, and Geert Grote’s extensive Epistularium (Devotio moderna).
Scholastic thought is expanded through the inclusion of James of Eltville’s Lectura in libros Sententiarum and Heymeric de Campo’s Tractatus de formis intentionalibus.
Ecclesiastical controversies continued throughout the Middle Ages, with Ratramnus of Corbie’s ninth-century Liber de anima ad Odonem Bellouacensem and John of Segovia’s Council of Basel defense of the Immaculate Conception.
Neo-Latin: Reformation, Politics, and Modern Poetry
The religious and political polemics that marked the Humanist era are represented by Ulrich von Hutten’s anti-Erasmian Expostulatio, Melanchthon’s Confessio Augustana uariata, and Francesco Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de exilio.
Historiography and political thought intersect in Hugo Grotius’ chronicle of the Dutch Revolt, Annales de rebus Belgicis. Treatises defending the divine right of kings by Claude Saumaise and John Rowland further illustrate the political uses of Latin.
The nineteenth- and twentieth-century engagement with the classical tradition is showcased in the poetry of Giovanni Pascoli.
Improvements to Existing Dossiers
The Library of Latin Texts continues to undergo targeted refinements. This release reorganizes the dossier for Ambrosiaster’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles and introduces several new biographical entries for historical figures.
With BREPOLiS Latin, the rich heritage of Latin literature—from the earliest literary compositions to contemporary writings—is right at your fingertips. Today, we are pleased to announce a significant milestone: a major update to three of our key Latin full-text databases—the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL), the Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD), and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH).
These databases now benefit from a fundamentally improved data structure and a more intuitive, user-friendly interface, bringing them in line with the powerful environment already available in the Library of Latin Texts (LLT). These enhancements ensure greater accessibility, more efficient research, and a seamless user experience across platforms.
Extended Trial Offer: 16 months of access for the price of 6
To celebrate these updates, we are delighted to introduce an exclusive extended trial offer for 2026–2027.
Subscribers to LLT /LLT+ can activate an extended trial to these databases as early as September 1st 2026 through the end of 2027 at a price approximately 50% lower than the default subscription rate:
LLT subscribers can upgrade to LLT+ (including the Database of Latin Dictionaries), combine LLT with ACLL, ALD, or eMGH, or opt for the full BREPOLiS Latin cluster (including ACLL, ALD, eMGH, and DLD).
LLT+ subscribers can expand their access by adding any combination of ACLL, ALD, or eMGH, or by upgrading to BREPOLiS Latin.
Complimentary Access to the Cross-Database Searchtool
As an additional benefit, all participants in this offer will receive free access throughout 2027 to the Cross-Database Searchtool (CDS). This powerful interface enables simultaneous searching across LLT, ALD, ACLL, and eMGH, significantly enhancing research efficiency.
Normally, the CDS requires an additional subscription except for the subscribers to the BREPOLiS Latin bundle. Free access only applies to the Latin Full-Text databases you subscribe to.
Learn More
For a detailed overview of the offer and the new interfaces, we invite you to consult our brochure: [Download the PDF leaflet]
For further information or to discuss your subscription options, please contact us at: brepolis@brepols.net
Important Information
This special offer is available exclusively to institutional customers and applies only to new subscriptions (renewals are not eligible). From 2028 onward, default subscription rates will apply for any continued access.
We’re thrilled to announce an upcoming webinar introducing the brand-new interface of Sources Chrétiennes Online (SCO)! Following last year’s major upgrade of the Library of Latin Texts and related databases, SCO has now received a complete interface overhaul—making your research experience smoother, faster, and more intuitive than ever.
Webinar Details
To accommodate different time zones, we’re offering two sessions on Wednesday, April 29, 2026:
Morning Session: 11:00 AM (CEST)
Afternoon Session: 5:00 PM (CEST) / 11:00 AM (EDT) / 8:00 AM (PDT)
Each session will last 15 minutes, followed by a live Q&A where you can ask questions and explore the new features with our team.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is ideal for researchers, librarians, and students who want to make the most of SCO’s enhanced capabilities.
How to Register
To register for the webinar, please complete the registration form. Once registered, you’ll receive a confirmation email with further details.
Following last year’s major overhaul of the Library of Latin Texts and related databases, Sources Chrétiennes Online now also benefits from a fully renewed interface. While the underlying data structure remains unchanged, the research experience has been significantly enhanced: smarter search tools, richer metadata exploration, improved filtering, and new vocabulary analytics make navigating SCO faster and more intuitive than ever.
Below we highlight some of the new features, with more details available in the database manual and our recent blog posts on innovations in the BREPOLiS full-text databases.
Searching and filtering
Search in the original and/or translation
You can search for a term or phrase in the original text (first box) or translation (second box), or query both at the same time to find where the term has been translated in a specific way.
Filter your results
The new interface makes it much easier to filter your results and see the occurrences for one specific person (i.e. author, translator, etc.), work, style, genre, topic, or area of origin.
Compose your custom corpus
By combining various search criteria, you can also finetune the corpus you are searching before performing the query itself.
Persons and their features
Enhanced metadata
Learn more about the person. When were they active? Which works are attributed or otherwise linked to them? Which other persons are associated with them? In which online resources can we discover more about them?
Discover the person’s vocabulary
Discover how often a lexical item is used throughout the works related to a person. By dividing these lists into the different roles in which the person occurs, discussions on authorship are being taken into account.
Works and their features
Enhanced metadata
Learn more about a work and how it can be contextualized: its author and other related persons, its date of composition, its genre, its topic, and its area of origin. Find out more about the work in the Sources Chrétiennesvolume and in various reference works.
Navigate through the work
Browse the table of contents of the work, either by structural elements or by the descriptive subdivisions added by the translator.
Discover the work’s vocabulary
Get an overview of which words (and inflected forms) are used throughout the work and their frequency. This feature works both for the edited original text and for the translation.
Volumes and their contents
Use the “Volumes” tab to browse through the volumes published over the years in the Sources Chrétiennes series and discover which works were published in each volume.
Reference works
Focus on a specific reference work (CPG, CPL, BHG, or BHL) to get a domain-specific overview of (e.g. hagiographical) texts.
Database statistics
Using the “More > Statistics” tab, you can browse through the more than 30 million words (original + translation) available in Sources Chrétiennes Online and focus on specific lexical items you are interested in.
Questions or feedback?
We welcome any questions or feedback on Sources Chrétiennes Online! Simply go to “More > Feedback” in the database and leave us a note.
We are pleased to announce a new update to Clavis Clavium, the open-access reference database maintained by Corpus Christianorum. This release brings the Open Access platform fully in line with the most recent data updates and introduces substantial additions and refinements across the Latin and Greek sections, enhancing reliability and discoverability for patristic research.
The update also improves the links with the Library of Latin Texts, ensuring closer alignment with its nomenclature and reference structure, and facilitating smoother navigation between both resources.
