The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (DLCR), published by Alexander Street Press, is an online collection of Catholic authored texts written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period when the Church was undergoing an internal reform and revitalization of its mission and sanctity. Spurred on in part in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and the criticisms levied against it by figures such as Martin Luther, but also from an even earlier recognition that some internal house‐cleaning was in order, the Catholic Church introduced during this time period a number of moral, theological and disciplinary reforms in relation to...