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Tag: Modern History

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6 November 2017

Linguistic strife in times of war

Eleven regimental languages and countless dialects: the Habsburg army was a Babel of languages. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the historian Tamara Scheer explored how the Emperor, the army, soldiers and the military bureaucracy coped with this linguistic diversity. Her conclusion: in an imaginative and flexible way. Continue reading “Linguistic strife in times of war”

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31 October 2016

The birth of newspapers

A valuable collection of 16,000 handwritten newsletters assembled by the Fugger brothers has come down to us in Vienna. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, these newsletters were subjected to scholarly research and made accessible by digitisation, thus revealing their significance in understanding the birth of modern news communications. Continue reading “The birth of newspapers”

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