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Mit Stilus, Volumen und Spiegel. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung von Lesen und Schreiben bei Frauen aus dem römischen Reich anhand von Funden aus dem Grabkontext. project image

Mit Stilus, Volumen und Spiegel. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung von Lesen und Schreiben bei Frauen aus dem römischen Reich anhand von Funden aus dem Grabkontext.

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By analyzing burial finds linked to the deceased, the dissertation «Mit Stilus, Volumen und Spiegel» traces female literacy in the Latin West of the Roman Empire.

Project 0852
(digitale) Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke und Briefe von Jeremias Gotthelf, HKG und dHKG project image

(digitale) Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke und Briefe von Jeremias Gotthelf, HKG und dHKG

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Die Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe von Jeremias Gotthelfs Werken und Briefen (2008–2040) lädt zu einer Entdeckung der Texte in ihren Kontexten ein.

Project 0862
The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II) project image

The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)

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Each Roman church that was affected by building work in the High Middle Ages is presented in alphabetical order, including its architecture (with associated annexes) and its liturgical furnishing

Project 084C
Prendre une position épistémique dans l’interaction. Les marqueurs du savoir, du non-savoir et du doute en français project image

Prendre une position épistémique dans l’interaction. Les marqueurs du savoir, du non-savoir et du doute en français

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A systematic and multimodal study of French epistemic and evidential markers as emerging in various professional/institutional settings documented by “natural“ video-recorded data.

Project 0120
Fagottini and tenoroons: small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries project image

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

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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.

Project 0845
Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers) project image

Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers)

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Annotated historical statistics on the development and use of cantonal education programmes and the vocational education and training system in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Project 0828
Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS) project image

Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)

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With its approximately 500,000 photo objects from across the world, the photo archive of the CAS fosters new approaches to the study and consumption of photographs.

Project 0812
Alice in DaSCHland project image

Alice in DaSCHland

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Alice in DaSCHland whisks you away on a whimsical digital journey where data and metadata spark fantastical adventures - showcase project from DaSCH!

Project 0854
WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language project image

WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language

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The WoPoss project aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings in Latin from the prehistory of the language up to the 7th century CE, through a linguistically annotated, diachronic corpus.

Project 0843
Digital Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Digital LIMC) project image

Digital Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Digital LIMC)

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Digital LIMC contains what we know about the iconography of Greek, Etruscan and Roman mythology, both in ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman art as well as in neighbouring Mediterranean cultures.

Project 080E
Drawings of gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach of Children’s Representations of Supernatural Agents project image

Drawings of gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach of Children’s Representations of Supernatural Agents

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Fondé sur plusieurs centaines de dessins dans diverses régions du monde, ce projet étudie l’évolution de la représentation de Dieu ou d’autres êtres surnaturels chez des enfants et des adolescents.

Project 0105
Musiklexikon der Schweiz project image

Musiklexikon der Schweiz

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Das MLS stellt fundierte Information über die AkteurInnen, Institutionen, Orte, Objekte und Phänomene zur Verfügung, die für die Musikgeschichte Schweiz über alle Sparten und Stile relevant sind.

Project 0807