Entries Categorized as 'History'

The Getty Now Provides Free Access to the Bibliography of the History of Art

Date April 5, 2010

From a recent release:
As of April 1, 2010, the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha. Free Web access to BHA is an advantage not only to all traditional users of the database but also to such potential users as institutions in [...]

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Oral History, Augustine’s Definition of Community, and Good Friday

Date April 2, 2010

St. Augustine famously argued that community is created as people with common affections for something mutually esteemed have opportunity to communicate about and celebrate those common affections. Oliver O’Donovan’s book “Common Objects of Love” was an exposition of this idea for modern culture. This have profoundly shaped my understanding of community, as a [...]

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Internet Archive: 2Millionth Digitized Text

Date April 1, 2010

A recent announcement from the Internet Archive:
The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public for free [...]

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