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Digiberichte.de aims to advance research on late medieval and early modern European travel accounts. This project provides digitized editions and research literature on approx. 375 different travels and pilgrimages through Europe in historical times. The bibliographical database allows quick reference for the travel accounts. Due to copy right restrictions only literature from the 19th century and earlier is provided in full text. The majority of the material provided here is based on the so called "analytical bibliographies" of medieval travel accounts that have been edited under the direction of Prof. Werner Paravicini and published by Peter Lang. Initially only bibliographies on German, French and Dutch travel-accounts have been published, but there was always the idea of collecting material for the other European countries (especially Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, Scandinavia and East-Europe) als well. Digiberichte.de therefore collects information also for travellers from these countries that left accounts of their journey.

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.

„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'".

"Examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view; read supporting material by our curators and other experts: Shakespeare in Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, Gutenberg Bible, Magna Carta, Renaissance Festival Books, Sample: Malory's Arthurian manuscript."

"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."

"The first major exhibition in forty-five years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) brings together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints and places them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early sixteenth century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck (ca. 1380/90-1441), and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). "

Auf dieser Internet-Präsenz finden Sie die im Rahmen des Projektes »Sandrart.net« erarbeitete Online-Edition der von Joachim von Sandrart verfassten »Teutschen Academie« und der »Iconologia Deorum«, die von 1675 bis 1680 publiziert wurden.\n\nIn den grundlegenden Dingen unterscheidet sich diese Edition nur wenig von einer ›klas­sischen‹ Edition in Buchform: der Originaltext ist - abgesehen von vorsichtigen editorischen Anpassungen - unverändert abrufbar, wahlweise durch seitenweises Blättern wie auch durch gezielten Einstieg über die Gliederung. Auch die im Original­werk enthaltenen Kupferstiche können angezeigt werden.\nSelbstverständlich ist diese Edition in vergleichbarer Weise zitierbar, wie Sie es von gedruckter Literatur gewohnt sind; hierzu besitzt jede Seite eine dauerhafte und ein­deu­tige Adresse (»PURL«), die eine genaue Zitation erleichtert.