Church History: Useful Websites

Helpful bibliographies of major works in different eras of and major topics in church history.

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) is a research and teaching centre at the University of Toronto with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700.

This digital library comprises hundreds of classic Christian books. It is particularly good on works by early church fathers.

This database brings together information on men and women who took part in the crusades to the Holy Land in the period between the Council of Clermont (1095) and the end of the Second Crusade (1149).

Includes detailed bibliographies on creeds, councils, people, issues, heresies, and much more. Covering the period from the foundation of the Church to c.600.

The Meeter Center houses one of the world’s largest collections of materials on John Calvin, Calvinism, the Reformation and early modern studies. Their website provides many resources, including digital versions of John Calvin's major works.

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The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. It includes many texts relating to the development of Christianity in the early, medieval, and modern periods.

Takes over where EarlyChurch.org.uk left off, providing resources on Church History up to the time of the dawn of the Reformation. Besides significant people, the site has a wealth of material on medieval sects, doctrines, and the Crusades.

PRDL is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.)

Project Wittenberg is home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans.

The Spurgeon Library exists to promote Jesus Christ by remembering the life and legacy of Charles Spurgeon.

Theopedia is a growing online evangelical encyclopedia of biblical Christianity, a network of interconnected pages, constantly being refined and updated.