Since 1995 each article has been summarised in English and French. This journal is open to all studies and research on the religious history of France from the first centuries A.D. to the present. This journal presents articles specifically devoted to the literary tradition of manuscripts and printed works produced before 1500, in Greek, Latin, Romance and Oriental languages. Problems concerning the history of art and literature, palaeography and codicology are frequently treated, in so far as they allow us to clarify the material and intellectual transmission of a text through history. The journal presents short texts, unpublished fragments, numerous notes and analyses, excerpts from manuscripts, as well as ancient catalogues and inventories, in which traces of disappeared works and manuscripts have been recorded.
Special attention is paid to methodology.
Furthermore, detailed information is given on the scientific work of scholars all over the world, and the most important publications are the focus of critical discussions. The journal is an international periodical treating the history of religious life and spirituality in both the medieval and modern eras. Devoted principally to the publication and analysis of new source material related to the monastic and canonical orders, the Revue covers all of Western Christendom. Each article is summarised in English and French. In recent years, particular emphasis has been placed on the development of the Romance languages in the Americas.