36 projects
Locus Ludi database: The Kottabos in the Greek World
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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.

DionysosGameGreek vases
Mapping the Scriptures in Western Sephardic Literature
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Mapping the Scriptures in Western Sephardic Literature

Studies the role of the Bible in Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities of the Western Sephardic diaspora (1550–1800), combining literary and historical research with digital humanities methods.

Intellectual HistorySpanish StudiesPortuguese Literature
Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns
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Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns

The multifaceted martial culture of the late Medieval European town is sketched by this research project describing the ownership, handling, symbolism, use, and materiality of medieval weapons, and their cultural impact on urban society.

Martial CultureMedieval HistoryUrban History
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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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.

Grave GoodsInscriptionsLatin West
Online Edition of Jacob Bernoulli's Reisebüchlein
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Online Edition of Jacob Bernoulli's Reisebüchlein

Digital edition of Jacob Bernoulli's 195-page travel journal (1676-1683), documenting his journeys across Europe with facsimiles and dynamic visualizations.

Jacob BernoulliReisebüchleintravel journal
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania
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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.

EthnologyParticipationSocial health protection
Postkarten Russland
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Postkarten Russland

The project makes an extensive collection of Russian postcards public which is held by the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Basel.

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

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

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

18th century19th centuryDatabases