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The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Edited by Simon Ditchfield and Brad Gregory
Alexandria, VA
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Keywords Christianity, Electronic media, History
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011030607
The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (DLCR), published by Alexander Street Press, is an online collection of Catholic authored texts written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period when the Church was undergoing an internal reform and revitalization of its mission and sanctity. Spurred on in part in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and the criticisms levied against it by figures such as Martin Luther, but also from an even earlier recognition that some internal house-cleaning was in order, the Catholic Church introduced during this time period a number of moral, theological and disciplinary reforms in relation to matters such as the conduct of the clergy, fiscal abuses, Church doctrine, religious education, missionary activity, and its relation to the secular world. The broad range of writings concerning these issues is reflected in the variety of works included in the DLCR collection. The editorial board is headed by Simon Ditchfield of the University of York and Brad Gregory of the University of Notre Dame, who are assisted by nineteen international scholars from universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Yale, as well as a number of theological seminaries. The collection is available on the Web,...