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Explore cutting-edge humanities research projects hosted on our platform. Each project represents a unique contribution to Swiss cultural heritage and academic knowledge.
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Healing Arts. Representations and Practices of Medical Knowledge in Art and Literature (9th-12th centuries)
The project explores the entangled histories of botany, art and health. It considers plant images in early medieval herbals as modes of knowledge that articulate and negotiate medical practices.
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The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)
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
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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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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.
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Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe
The Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (AWG) is a critical-historical edition which aims to make Webern’s entire oeuvre accessible to musical scholarship and practice in a scholarly form.
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Vitae Sanctae Wiboradae — Lebensbeschreibungen der heiligen Wiborada von St. Gallen, herausgegeben, übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen von Walter Berschin
Edition und Übersetzung der beiden von den St. Galler Mönchen Ekkehart I. und Herimannus verfassten Viten Wiboradas von St. Gallen († 926) durch Walter Berschin.
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Aura und Effizienz. Leistungsorientierte Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der Literatur der 1920-30er-Jahre: Emmy Hennings, Marieluise Fleisser, Friedrich Glauser und Bruno Goetz
Das Projekt untersucht die diskursiven und praktischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der 1920-30er Jahre.
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Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg
Folk music enthusiasts gathered between 1972 and 1980 at the picturesque Lenzburg Castle. Discover the audio heritage of the legendary Lenzburg Folk Festival
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Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)
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.
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Alice in DaSCHland
Alice in DaSCHland whisks you away on a whimsical digital journey where data and metadata spark fantastical adventures - showcase project from DaSCH!
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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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Bernoulli-Euler Online (BEOL)
The project Bernoulli-Euler Online (BEOL) focuses on the mathematics influenced by the Bernoulli dynasty and Leonhard Euler and presents these materials to the public and researchers.