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The Marteau Encyclopedia of the Early Modern Period

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 will be listed in the page “history” (click tab above). You can modify whatever you find within this database, you can augment it and you can open new articles and link them to articles you found or want to create in the future.

As in Wikipedia the authors have decided not to insist on their copyrights. You are entitled to copy materials from our pages, we invite you to do so.

The two big differences between the different international Wikipedia-editions and The Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period are that we are only interested in a period of the past and that our authors have adopted a rule of editorship: 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 (contact us to get one) before you can begin – a barrier and a chance: If you write here, you will work without fear of vandalism and the more unpleasant encounters the bigger Wikipedia projects cannot avoid without giving up what makes them so extremely attractive.

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 explicitly want to attract the community of specialists (with a perspective on the wider audience we can offer). Do 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 meet on our pages. Do not hesitate to use The Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period to advertise your research and feel free to comment on research you will find on these pages. The additional, more scholarly project is what we will be trying to offer.

We do especially welcome articles on differences, articles stressing gaps between our present world an the 17th and 18th century world to be encountered on our pages. The fact that all our articles will stay within this past will add to the project's fascination. The link to London you will set at the Marteau Encyclopedia will be the link to the early modern London with its topics and images, the link to money will lead into the early modern world of money and monetary politics. The reconstruction of the distant past will be part of our project.

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