Archival collections and resources
The School of Divinity holds a rich archival collection and has access to many useful research resources. Here are just a few examples.
The School of Divinity holds a rich archival collection and has access to many useful research resources. Here are just a few examples.
The School has used two grants to develop a series of animated maps for use in teaching.
- The Spread of Early Christianity: these animated maps show the growth of Christianity to the year 406.
- Aspects of the High Middle Ages: these animated maps show the Crusades, the Cistercian Order's growth and Margery Kempe's pilgrimages.
- The Great Migrations into the Western Roman Empire: these animated maps show the great migrations from 395 flowing into and across the Western Roman Empire and contributing to its demise.
- History of Christianity as a World Religion: these animated maps show events from 1453 to 1601, 1601 to 1803, and 1803 to the present.
*Copyright for all maps belongs to the University of Edinburgh.
Translations and transcripts of letters and papers relating to the Marian exiles - Protestants who fled to Europe during the reign of Queen Mary Tudor (1553-8).
These documents provide substantial new information on exiles such as John Knox, Richard Cox, John Jewel, John Bale, Christopher Goodman, Edmund Grindal and William Whittingham. They are of considerable significance for English and Scottish 16th-century history as well as for the broader ‘British’ heritage and that shared by the entire English-speaking world.