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An annotated presentation of bibliographical titles that cover the history of christianity from its beginnings to the present day. The titles are classified to sources and secondary literature, and they are divided to 21 chapters according to chronological criteria (a chapter for the first three centuries, the 4th, 5th, 6th c., and chapters for medieval, middle-byzantine, late-byzantine, late-medieval era, etc. until the 20th c.), while there are chapters for the Slavic and the non-european christianity as well as for the orthodox church of Greece (chapter 21). Before the 21 chapters there is a first part which contains a methodological introduction to the history of christianity in two chapters: one for the history of the object of history of christianity and a second for an introduction to bibliographical tools (instrumenta studiorum) together with instructions of their use in order to deal with a historical problem. The second part enumerates the sources in a numerical series independently for each chapter, while there is a subclassification number in case of bigger unities (e.g. works of a single writer, genres such as Saints’ Lives etc.). The titles of the secondary sources are enumerated with the designation of Delta (=Deuterevousa, Greek for secondary). The focus of the whole literature collection lies on the orthodox christianity (trying to cover all other forms and areas of christianity also) and the sources and the secondary literature being treated take into consideration the greek public. Yet, the overall criterion of the selection of the literature is the impact on the indigenous and the international state of art.
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