Emanuel Handmann, 1718-1781: ein Basler Portr atist im Bern des ausgehenden Rokoko

Geneva was forced to pay Bern substantial military reparations; moreover, it struggled to reclaim the vidomnat. Only in August 1536 was its Burgrecht with Bern renewed. In 1538 it ...

Die meisten Religionen versprechen ein Leben nachdem Tod, in dem es glücklicher oder gerechter oder sonst wie besser zugehen soll als auf der Erde. Wie schön wäre es, wenn wir wirk...

In 1508 a Savoy official Jean Dufour produced a forged will purporting to have been drawn up by Duke Charles I in 1489, which assigned staggering sums to Bern and Fribourg as a rew...

In 1532 Guillaume Farel began Reforming preaching in Geneva. Fribourg’s Catholicism estranged it from Geneva (and Lausanne, where there was evangelically tinged hostility towards t...

Savoy’s aggression towards Geneva devolved upon the League of the Spoon, a band of Savoyard noblemen. The bishop hoped to shore up his dwindling authority by joining the Burgrecht ...

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this book’s author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not ...

Karel van het Reve (1921–1999) war Slawist, vor allem aber ein gefeierter Kolumnist, Essayist, Romancier und Übersetzer. Und er war ein „Meister der ironischen Pirouette“, der sein...