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The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First published in 1544 it went through thirty-five editions and was published in five languages, making it one of the most important books of the Reformation period. Beginning with a biographical study of Sebastian Münster, his life and the range of his scholarly work, this book then moves on to discuss the genre of cosmography. The bulk of the book, however, deals with the Cosmographia itself, offering a close reading of the 1550 Latin edition (the last and de...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an essential milestone in the history of European education.
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Gente ferocissima
Le canton de Vaud est concerné par plusieurs contributions: Emigration civile et émigration militaire à travers le recensement bernois de 1764 / Lucienne Hubler.
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