The mapping of metadata is a valuable approach to analysing historical discourses from a bird’s eye view. As publication metadata mainly includes places of publication and information on authors, translators, publishers and printers, they are a rich source for the reconstruction of communication networks and the dissemination of ideas.
On November 11 and 12, 2021, the 1st meeting of the DFG Island Studies Network took place online. The meeting featured my presentation Goods, people, ideas – island exchanges in early modern Europe: MONIKA BARGET (Maastricht / Mainz) moved...
In the academic blog series “On site, in time”, published by the Institute of European History in Mainz, you will find my contribution on the Corsican town Aleria / Aléria and its role in Corsica’s 18th-century fight for indepedence:...
