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Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH) project image
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Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH)

Die RicH-Studie erforscht die Operationen narrativer Kompetenz und deren qualitative Unterschiede anhand eines Novizen-Experten-Vergleichs zwecks empirischer Fundierung eines Progressionsmodelles.
Canon of solar eclipses from 2501 BCE to 1000 CE project image
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Canon of solar eclipses from 2501 BCE to 1000 CE

When did the Sun darken in antiquity? Discover calculated solar eclipses and their traces in ancient historical sources.
Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s project image
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Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s

The SNSF PRIMA project “Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s” studies the uses of TV in industrial, medical, educational and military contexts.
vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online project image
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vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online

vitrosearch - Database for stained glass and glass art by the Vitrocentre Romont
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908 project image
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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?
Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes project image
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Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes

Philological and archaeological project exploring the emergence and evolution of the funerary literature of the Graeco-Roman Period
(digitale) Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke und Briefe von Jeremias Gotthelf, HKG und dHKG project image
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(digitale) Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke und Briefe von Jeremias Gotthelf, HKG und dHKG

Die Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe von Jeremias Gotthelfs Werken und Briefen (2008–2040) lädt zu einer Entdeckung der Texte in ihren Kontexten ein.
Street art in Belfast and Bogota: Murals, graffiti and posters project image
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Street art in Belfast and Bogota: Murals, graffiti and posters

PhD project about the interactions between visual and political representations of women in contexts of peace processes, focussing on murals in the cities of Belfast and Bogotá
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cache

cache is a hybrid publication tool for research groups in the humanities.
Vitae Sanctae Wiboradae — Lebensbeschreibungen der heiligen Wiborada von St. Gallen, herausgegeben, übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen von Walter Berschin project image
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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.
Lesen als soziale Negotiation - Rekonstruktion der Bibliothek von Sigmund Gossembrot (1417–1493) project image
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Lesen als soziale Negotiation - Rekonstruktion der Bibliothek von Sigmund Gossembrot (1417–1493)

Das Projekt erarbeitet und rekonstruiert den Bestand der Bibliothek von Sigmund Gossembrot (1417-1493)
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Textures of Sacred Scripture

Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300