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"Engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy whose visual language is composed entirely of lines. From 1480 to 1650 Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to the technique of engraving as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks. ‚The Brilliant Line' follows these visual transformations and offers new insight intothe special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Early Modern engravers."

Die Sammlung der Leichenreden im Staatsarchiv war bisher nur zu einem kleinen Teil im Bibliothekskatalog IDS Basel/Bern erfasst. In einem Rekatalogisierungsprojekt konnten nun durch die Universitätsbibliothek 5689 Aufnahmen entweder neu erstellt oder an vorhandene Aufnahmen angehängt werden. Die hohe Quote von rund 85 Prozent Neuaufnahmen verweist auf die substantielle Erweiterung des Gesamtkatalogs durch die Sammlung der Leichenreden in der Bibliothek des Staatsarchivs. Zeitlich reicht die Sammlung vom 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Der Schwerpunkt liegt allerdings im 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert.

I'm Sharon Howard, and since summer 2006 I've been working at the University of Sheffield as Project Manager for two digital primary source projects: the Proceedings of the Old Bailey/Central Criminal Court and London Lives and the Making of Modern London 1690-1800. I'm now working on Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900, a federated search facility for a wide range of distributed electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British History. I've been running an early modern resources website in one form or another since about 2000 and started this blog in June 2004.

"Bürgermeister Johann Heinrich Waser war eine prägende Gestalt der Zürcher und eidgenössischen Politik in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt ist dagegen Wasers umfangreiche publizistische Tätigkeit. Sie gibt reichen Aufschluss über die Laufbahn dieses Zürcher Staatsmannes und bietet zugleich faszinierende Einblicke in die Alltagsgeschichte der Zürcher Elite jener Zeit."

„In August 1617 a small group of Saxon nobles gathered in Castle Hornstein near Weimar to establish a type of institution previously unknown on German soil ‚the learned society'. It was based on the Italian model of the previous century and specifically on the Academia della Crusca of Florence, to whose ranks one of its founding members, Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, had been elected in 1600. Ludwig was the chief benefactor and the head of this new German society until his death in 1650, and he and its other founding members sought inspiration in their pursuit of learning from the many Italian literary societies which had contributed so much to the purification and normalization of Italian letters in the sixteenth century. The new German society was called the ‚Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft', the Fruitbearing Society, and its motto was „Alles zum Nutzen" - ‚Everything for a purpose'".