Building the Corpus Christianorum: A Short History of the First 75 Years
Bart Janssens|Mathijs Lamberigts|Johan Leemans
In 1947 a bright young monk of the Benedictine St. Peter’s Abbey in Steenbrugge (Bruges), Jan-Eligius Dekkers, first announced his plans to collect complete works Latin and Greek Church Fathers single, uniform series critical text editions. Over course 75 years collection, called Corpus Christianorum, expanded chronologically, methodologically logistically. To serve Dekkers’ purpose, monastic library at developed into scholarly centre that despite many evolutions transformations still operates today as Christianorum headquarters Turnhout, Belgium. Although physical volumes its flagship continue be produced print, digital turn, too, has come full circle: 2019 Clavis Clavium was launched, an online collaborative platform building on foundations Dom Patrum Latinorum.
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