65 projects
The Art of Reason in the Middle Ages. Visualizing reason and rational thought (11th-15th centuries)
Ongoing
Embargoed Access

The Art of Reason in the Middle Ages. Visualizing reason and rational thought (11th-15th centuries)

The Art of Reason explores how medieval visual culture shaped and represented ideas of reason, revealing images as active forces in medieval intellectual history.

Medieval artReasonManuscripts Studies
The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century
Finished
Full Open Access

The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century

This project consists of four individual projects and a digital literary atlas as a visualisation of the function of the beach in anglophone literature between 1890 and 2023.

modernismbeachanglophone literature
The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)
Ongoing
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The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)

Each Roman church that was affected by building work in the High Middle Ages is presented in alphabetical order, including its architecture (with associated annexes) and its liturgical furnishing

AntikenrezeptionArcheologyArchäologie
Finished
Embargoed Access

The Electronic Catalogue of the Samaria Ivory Carvings

"Samaria Ivories" provides access to a catalogue with color photographs of the entire assemblage of ivory carvings and related material that once decorated luxurious furniture of the Israelite elite.

Ancient Near EastLevantKingdom of Israel
The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography
Ongoing
Open Access with Restrictions

The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography

Ce projet reconstituera les trajectoires familiales, professionnelles, sociales et politiques des 213 membres du CIO cooptés avant 1972.

ApolitismInternational Olympic CommitteeInternational organisations
The Medieval Frame of Monumental Portal Sculpture (Pedestals, Canopies, Niches) : Cultural Transfers and Agency (12th-13th Centuries)
Ongoing
Full Open Access

The Medieval Frame of Monumental Portal Sculpture (Pedestals, Canopies, Niches) : Cultural Transfers and Agency (12th-13th Centuries)

This project aims to valorise and better comprehend the various elements surrounding monumental statues of church portals, namely pedestals, canopies, and niches.

AgencyArtistic geographyCanopies
University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project
Ongoing
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University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project

Assessment of tombs in the Kings’ Valley used for burials of royal family and entourage (ca. 1350 BCE), looted (ca. 1000 BCE), and reused for burials of members of priestly families (ca. 800–700 BCE).

ArchaeologyEgyptValley of the Kings
vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online
Ongoing
Open Access with Restrictions

vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online

vitrosearch - Database for stained glass and glass art by the Vitrocentre Romont

art glassart historyglass in concrete
Women Martyrs in Action: Recreating and Performing Medieval Heroines Today
© Fabrice Ducrest, Unil
Ongoing
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Women Martyrs in Action: Recreating and Performing Medieval Heroines Today

Recherche-création sur deux textes dramatiques médiévaux qui célèbrent des héroïnes martyres : Agnès et Barbe. Le projet envisage la traduction d’extraits originaux et leur experimentation scénique.

Théâtre médiévalhéroïnes saintesrecherche-création