Europa Sacra
Europa Sacra is the most comprehensive tool for studying Church prelates from the Early Church to the Early Modern Period.
The lists of bishops produced in Eubel’s Hierarchia catholica medii aevi… ab anno 1198 and Gams’ Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae still represent the most comprehensive tool for studying the prelates of the Church from the Early Church to the Early Modern Period.
What Users Will Find
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Vast Coverage
Access prosopographical information on over 30,000 bishops, archbishops, and patriarchs for the period 1198-1667; and all those cited by Gams for the period to 1198.
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Multilingual Interface
Navigate our multilingual interface in English, French, and German to access information on church prelates with ease and convenience.
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Comprehensive Data
Gain access to complete coverage of church prelates obedient to Rome until 1667, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi… ab anno 1198 [Münster, 1898ff] and P.B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae, vol. 1 [Regensburg, 1873])
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Europa Sacra is part of the cluster BREPOLiS Medieval Encyclopaedias, together with the Lexikon des Mittelalters Online + International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.
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See also the International Medieval Bibliography.
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Cover image: The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, ca. 1510–15, Gerard David, Metropolitan Museum of Art