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Der späte Nietzsche. Digitale Manuskriptedition
The digital edition project "Der späte Nietzsche" (The Late Nietzsche) publishes Friedrich Nietzsche's late estate digitally congruent to the manuscripts.
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.
Tall al-Hamidiya Online
The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.
Drawings of gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach of Children’s Representations of Supernatural Agents
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.
L’epistolario di Ugo Foscolo: catalogo
The catalogue of the Foscolo epistolary contains the data, metadata and images relating to the letters, documents, witnesses, holding institutions and editions of the letters.
Digital Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Digital LIMC)
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.
Hôtel de Musique Bern
The database documents the different kinds of spectacles such as theatre plays, operas, ballets, or concerts that took place in the Hôtel de Musique in Bern between 1766 and 1905.
Textures of Sacred Scripture
Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300
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?
Côté chaire, côté rue, La Réforme à Genève (1517-1617)
The database is the result of the transposition of a virtual exhibition realized in the context of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation (1517).
Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines
The Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines aims to map data related to the history of academic disciplines and provides tools to visualize the evolution of disciplinary borders over time.
Mit Stilus, Volumen und Spiegel. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung von Lesen und Schreiben bei Frauen aus dem römischen Reich anhand von Funden aus dem Grabkontext.
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.