Introduction
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. It contains prosopographical information on 30,000 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs.
Europa Sacra: view of a record (bishopric)
Europa Sacra: view of a record (bishop)
Key Features
- Complete coverage of Church prelates obedient to Rome until 1667 from C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi… ab anno 1198 [Münster, 1898ff] and P.B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae, vol. 1 [Regensburg, 1873])
- Prosopographical information on more than 30,000 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs for the period 1198-1667; and all those cited by Gams for the period to 1198
- multilingual interface: English, French and German
Clusters & Related Databases
Clusters
Europa Sacra is part of the cluster BREPOLiS Medieval Encyclopaedias, together with the Lexikon des Mittelalters Online + International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.
Related Databases
See also the International Medieval Bibliography.