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MARK16

MARK16 is a SNSF PRIMA project. It reassesses the diverse endings of the Gospel of Mark through manuscript data, available on its Virtual Research Environment ISSN 2673-9836, https://mark16.sib.swiss.

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Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys

Were early Christian churches aligned with the sun or the moon? A study across Switzerland and Northern Italy explores the links between the sky and sacred architecture.

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« Théâtre de société » (Age of Enlightenment - Second French Empire)

Théâtre de société is defined as a theater that is mainly or totally amateur, non-profit, practiced in private homes. The project concerns the study of this form of theater.

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Gustave Roud, Complete works

This database is the accompaniment of the critical edition of Gustave Roud’s work. It hosts the digital facsimiles of Gustave Roud’s archive, which includes manuscripts and printed materials.

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WordWeb / IDEM: A new way of representing Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period

WordWeb/IDEM offers an innovative digital database for representing intertextuality in the drama of Shakespeare’s time.

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The Medieval Frame of Monumental Portal Sculpture (Pedestals, Canopies, Niches) : Cultural Transfers and Agency (12th-13th Centuries)

This project aims to valorise and better comprehend the various elements surrounding monumental statues of church portals, namely pedestals, canopies, and niches.

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Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania

This project calls for a broad view of social health protection, comprising health care funding and people’s ubiquitous but less visible strife for participation in self-organized groups and networks.

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Promoting Knowledge. The Origins of the Science System and the Making of Professional Structures in European States, 1700-1870

The professionalization of science is often conceptualized as the exclusion of amateurs. We show on the contrary that this became only through the development of scientific culture and networks.

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Canonicity, Obscenity, and the Making of Modern Chaucer (COMMode): An Investigation of the Transmission and Audiences of The Canterbury Tales from 1700 to 2020

This project will recover the untold history of how Chaucer became both an icon of literary fame and an icon of obscenity.

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Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908

How do photography and statecraft intersect in the making and unmaking of citizens? How and why did photography become a new media for unmaking subjects in late 19th c Ottoman empire?

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Locus Ludi database: The Kottabos in the Greek World

This database aims to provide a benchmark by compilating all representations of kottabos in the Greek world, including descriptions, images and links to other reference databases.

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Fagottini and tenoroons: small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries

The organological and musicological aspects of small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries were the focus of a research team in Basel from 2017–2023.