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is, most obviously, a wikimedia based interactive online dictionary and research data base. Readers who have edited Wikipedia articles will be familiar with the software and its immense advantages: You can edit texts within this database from all around the globe. Your edit is listed in the “history” (click tab above). You can modify whatever you find with this database, you can augment it and you can open new articles within this structure and link them to articles you find.

As in Wikipedia the authors have decided to write without insisting on their copyright. You are entitled to copy materials from our pages, we invite you to do so.

The big difference between the different international Wikipedia-editions and The Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period will be the rule our authors decided to adopt: They write under their “real names” and they open “user pages” on which they promote their own work in this field. To ensure this you will be requested to enter your personal Marteau-password before you can begin – a barrier, we concede, and a chance: If you write here, you will work without fear of anonymous vandalism and the more unpleasant encounters our bigger Wikipedia sisters have in stock.

Our topic – the period from the invention of the printing press to the beginning of the nineteenth century – is a topic of general interest and one of research done by specialists. We do want to attract the community of specialists with a perspective on the wider audience we can offer. You create entries within this dictionary to give insight into your research. There will not be a “too special” or “too scientific” or “too scholarly” to be expected from the participants you will be meeting on our pages. Use The Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period to advertise your research; feel free to comment on research you will find on these pages.

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