Project Status: Complete

A digitized version of Migne’s Patrologia Graeca, a collection of texts in Greek by church fathers, theologians, councils, and many others from late antiquity through the high Middle Ages, as well as other Greek medieval texts, in the original Greek with some translations into English, German, and French. The texts are indexed alphabetically by author and may be read online or downloaded in .pdf format.

Part of Documenta Catholica Omnia, a browsable collection of links to Latin and Greek religious texts including the Christian scriptures, theology, liturgy, canon law, and papal and synodal legislation and decrees, from apostolic times through the reign of Benedict XVI. Texts are drawn from out-of-copyright collections or volumes like the Bullarium Romanum, Monumenta Germaniae Historicum, Rerum Italicarum, and Acta Sanctorum.

Resource details:

Resource Type: Catalog, Downloadable data, List Format, Text: Medieval

License: Must provide credit, No Fee, Out of copyright

Modern Language: Latin

Language of Modern Translation: English, French, German, Latin

Medieval content details:

Dates:  - 

Subject: Byzantium, Church Fathers, Clergy, Confession, Penance, Conversion, Law, Monasticism, Monks, Philosophy, Theology, Priests, Bishops, Canons, Reform, Religion - Institutional Church, Religious Law, Saints, Theology

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Biography, Memoirs, Chronicles, Annals, Commentary, Gloss, Exegesis, Doctrinal, Hagiography, Letters, Petitions, Religious Texts, Rules, Sermons, Orations, Textual Evidence

Geopolitical Region: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, Greece, Middle East

Original Language: Greek

Includes medieval creators like Anna Comnena, St. Athanasius, St. Cyril of Alexandria, Dionysius the Areopagite, and many others.