Geschichtswissenschaftliche Blogs auf einen Blick
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This may come as a postscript to the previous or as a sneak preview of upcoming projects that will deal with theatre and its history. An interesting topic with all the networks of actors knitting their personal ties in ever changing ensembles of travelling companies that visit cities and courts, of emerging houses with standing ensembles, of authors, of plays and of various roles – and then again of actors who would play certain types in various plays…
The following itinerary follows one of these groups, the so called Hochdeutsche Hofcomödianten or the Velten Company, named after the Veltens, a couple who were the directors between 1670s and 1712.
The image catches all the journeys this group took between 1693 and 1712, the years when Catharina Elisabeth Velten was the company’s director. The FactGrid viewer gives the list of the known stays as Günther Hansen noted them in his Formen der Commedia dell’ Arte in Deutschland (1968), p. 269.
The image is interesting as it captures a structural characteristic of the itineraries which theatre companies were likely to produce back in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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William Taylor’s typesetter was reading Crusoe’s history with full attention. That is why he stumbled over that date which the manuscript gave him for his page 46. 1659, “the same Day eight Year that I went from my Father and Mother at Hull”. Crusoe had left his parents in 1661, so he had stated on 7. Should that have been 1651? Or should it now be 1669? There as apparently no time to waste. He skipped the problem and left two blanks.
PARIS TO DOWNLOAD comes with a double purpose: it is first designed to provide a dataset for historians to download with one simple click. Click the image below and an SPARQL query will bring the adresses of Paris c. 1830 onto a modern map.
Move your cursor to the right margin and you will get the menu that allows you to download the raw data behind this visualisation to your computer. TSV (or CSV) is the practical format here, ready to bridge with copy and paste into any spreadsheet. The download will come with the geographic coordinates and the address names, CC0-licensed and ready to use in any software environment of your choice …
… This might, however, not be the most interesting use you can make of this data set. It might be far more attractive to create your own visualisations here on FactGrid with information you can put on any of the items underneath the visualisation. You will need an account to augment information on this data set and we are eager to open these accounts to all researchers working on historical Paris.
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Germany’s national author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe called it a “masquerade in red and white”, but was himself a member (just as he became a member of the Illuminati a little bit later; it made sense to join such organisations and to know from within what they were all about). Freemasonry was in its most idealistic terms an updated edition of the brotherhood of men united under a simple and strikingly anti aristocratic system: the system of the old craft guilds. With their three degrees of apprentice, fellow and master there was no room for privilege of birth. German masonry evolved from the late 1730’s through the 1750’s principally as a system of four degrees, with Scots Master at the apex and the development did not stop there. The chivalric degrees of the 1760’s and 1770’s gave way to increasingly complex systems, overgrowing this initial construct. These high-degree systems claimed roots in the middle ages if not deeper pasts, synthesising Christianity with alchemy, magic, and theosophy. Masonic entrepreneurs travelled through Europe selling secrets which they would convey in extraordinary lodges. What they offered would have been considered heresies only a generation before, and now became a market of esotericism – a market that turned the masonic world into its first framework and distributor. The Strict Observance or Order of the Temple, the masonic high-grade-system founded by Carl Gotthelf von Hund und Altengrotkau in Germany in 1751 was the biggest player on this stage in central Europe – the system of red and white, the colours of the Knights Templars.
With any luck, by the end of this year my book on the Early Sources on the emerging high degree Masonic bodies that became the Scottish Rite will see the press. COVID-19 has been challenging on all aspects of the economy and society, and the publishing industry is no exception. One positive aspect is that one finds themselves with extra time on their hands, allowing for some experimentation. These French sources will comprise a bilingual book (French and English) with all known correspondence from 1744-1767, containing all of the Sharp documents [a collection of Elus Parfaits corresponce covering France, the Antilles and Louisiana], the Etienne Morin letters published in St. Claudius by Choumitzky, along with the correspondence from the former Grand Lodge of France, that came into the possession of the Grand Orient de France. The project is a collaboration between the Grand Collège des Rites écossais and the Scottish Rite Research Society. It has been a massive undertaking and will yield an extremely useful source book for both Historians and Masons alike. I will try to give the data that went into the project here on FactGrid so that the research community can use and expand this base into any direction.
The curious question leading me here is: What did Freemasonry look like in the colonial possessions of France during the 18th century?
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Originally published on the Wikiversity project
Das Wissen über die Welt und den menschlichen Umgang mit dieser, über praktische Fähigkeiten und theoretische Erkenntnisse, wurden über Jahrhunderte in Handschriften gesammelt und verfügbar gemacht. Die ältesten deutschen Wissens- und Gebrauchstexte stammen noch aus Althochdeutscher Zeit (8. – 11. Jahrhundert) und besonders in Frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit (ca. 1350¬1650), wächst die Anzahl der Texte und Themengebiete rapide. Immer neue Wissensbereiche wurden in deutscher Sprache erschlossen und ein Großteil der spätmittelalterlichen deutschen Handschriften enthält Wissens- und Gebrauchstexte. Dennoch stehen diese Texte nicht im Zentrum germanistischer Forschung und sind – auch aufgrund ihrer Diversität und Komplexität – wesentlich schlechter erschlossen als literarische Texte. In meiner Forschung versuche ich diese Wissenslücke zu schließen und bislang vernachlässigte Textsorten, wie etwa Losbücher, Kalender, Geomantien, Textamulette, Tintenrezepte oder Anleitungen zur Dämonenbeschwörung (auch hier, hier und hier) so zu erschließen, dass sie von Fachkollegen, aber auch einem größeren Publikum, aufgefunden, gelesen und verstanden werden können. Dies soll auch dazu dienen die Überlieferung dieser Texte und damit die geographische wir soziale Verbreitung historischer Wissensbestände nachvollziehbar zu machen.
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Die folgende Materialpräsentation ist das Ergebnis eines zweimonatigen Praktikums im Forschungszentrum Gotha. Mein Projekt war es, der Forschung Vorarbeiten zu einem unvollendet gebliebenen Buchprojekt Hermann Schüttlers datenbankgestützt auf den FactGrid-Seiten zugänglich zu machen. Es handelte sich hierbei um Transkriptionen von 71 Dokumenten aus dem inneren Machtzirkel des Illuminatenordens der Jahre 1781 bis 1785. Im Gegensatz zu den von Hermann Schüttler und Reinhard Markner zuvor bereits vorgelegten Bänden der Illuminatenkorrespondenz steht hier das interne Berichtswesen des Ordens im Zentrum. Das Corpus birgt:
Es galt dabei erstens, die unterschiedlich umfangreich verfußnoteten Transkripte im Gesamtumfang von bislang 237 Seiten von ihren Word-Dateien in Wiki-Seiten des FactGrid zu überführen, sie dabei mit kurzen Einleitungen zu versehen und die Fußnotung an die Datenbank anzukoppeln oder in einem Großteil der Dokumente erst durch eigene Recherche zu erstellen – bei den Inspektionsberichten kamen im Extremfall über 200 Fußnoten im Einzeldokument in den Blick.
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In a tremendous effort of a year’s of work, Heino Richard of the Genealogical Society of Thuringia e.V., step by step translated the first volume of the Thuringian Pastors’ Books (the volume for the former Duchy of Gotha) into data which we could now feed into FactGrid: More than 13,300 database objects are stemming from this work allowing now entirely new explorations of the territory’s social and religious history. We as curious about the joint ventures this work might inspire. There is no reason to fear that the database version will render all further work on the paper-based volumes obsolete, the platform might, however, offer itself to the editors of the Pfarrerbuch as an unexpected aid.
The eight volumes cover all the parishes of the former Thuringian territories from the Reformation to the 20th century. A first survey is prefixed in each volume to give all the all the parishes and offices with lists of the pastors and auxiliaries who held the respective offices. The main part is in each volume devoted to the individual biographies.
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