Studies Links

www.bai.org.uk The British Iconographers Society based at Turvey Abbey.
www.artrenewal.org" International standard art ateliers which give professional tuition.

www.newadvent.org/cathen/ Catholic encyclopaedia on line. Excellent quick reference tool.
www.iocs.cam.ac.uk/whoswho.html Institute for Orthodox Christian studies at Oxford. This is undoubtedly the centre of Orthodox scholarship in the UK.
www.liturgica.com East-west chant resources, links for liturgy scholars includes Jewish resources. Has an online community dedicated to the study of liturgical theology and music.
www.orthodoxpsalm.org Pan-Orthodox society for the advancement of liturgical music.
www.carr.org/~meripper/ The St. Lawrence fast access Catholic Liturgical Resource site.

www.vroma.org Virtual community for teaching and learning classics: useful set of Roman costume images and links for biblical period and thereabouts.
www.catacombe.roma.it/ Comprehensive guide, informative about early Christian images.

www.aish.com/ Homepage of Aish a Torah, day to day Judaism.
www.ffhl.org/ Useful photos of biblical places and early Christian sites.
www.bibleplaces.com/ Teachers resource. Some excellent pics., and cd’s can be ordered.
198.62.75.1/www1/ofm/melita.html Franciscan cyberspot in the Holy Land (mandaba map).

www.fordham.edu/halsall Byzantine studies and the Mediaeval Sourcebook.
collecties.meermanno.nl/handschriften/ Watch out particularly for a useful set of unusual saints e.g. St. Mercury kills Julian the Apostate, the martyrdom of St. Barnabas.
www.lamp.ac.uk/celtic/conf.htm Centre for the study of religion in Celtic Societies. Lampeter University. e-library available

www.goldenmeangauge.co.uk The golden section underpins theory of proportions.

www.costume.org Very useful costume site for icons and other artwork - particularly Reformation and Elizabethan period martyrs.
www.alia.ie/tirnanog/ Virtual Irish cybercafe takes you to - the costume page of a social history of ancient Ireland, which is extremely useful for depicting early Irish Saints!