• will provide the user with an interface and functionalities almost identical to that of Lexikon des Mittelalters - Online, except for the searchfields that are irrelevant to Europa Sacra.
• will offer unrivalled coverage of medieval Church prelates
• information on all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates under obedience to Rome
• already in 2003 it will provide prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs
• gradually more recent prosopographical works on members of religious orders and data on secular clergy supplied by nationally-based prosopographical projects will be added
• Europa Sacra Online 2004 draws its initial information from:
  
  • C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi... ab anno 1198 [1st and 2nd edns. Münster, 1898ff]
  • P.B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae [Regensburg, 1873-86]
• Europa Sacra will become fully integrated on the search level with the other databases of Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias in the summer of 2004.
• A demoversion will be available early december 2003.

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