he Newberry religion-related collection focuses on original source material and printed editions from Western Europe and the Americas, spanning the late Middle Ages through the early twentieth century.
The collection’s special strengths include:
Sermons, devotions, and controversial literature
Including Christian sermons and sermon collections of all periods and language traditions, prayerbooks, and other devotional literature from Europe and the Americas. Religious publishing and censorship are also widely represented.
Church history and canon law
Including serial publications; materials on the Roman, Spanish, and Spanish American Inquisitions; holdings on utopian communities; and family papers.
Theology, doctrine, and liturgy
Including strong holdings of early modern sources for religious learning; medieval and Renaissance manuscripts containing liturgical and paraliturgical texts; and materials on American liberal Protestant thought.
Sacred music (well-represented from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century)