Locations of events.

When Jean Jacques Rousseau came to Paris, he was called ‘the little Rousseau’. The great Rousseau’s name was Jean Baptiste and he was considered an important author. Today, we hardly know anything about him. He became a victim of the highly competitive literary market at the time of the Enlightenment.

Bertuch’s picture book for children is considered a milestone in educational non-fiction literature. It sold extremely well. The producers of this unauthorised reprint wanted to participate in this success. Bertuch didn’t think it was funny at all...

Regional information and lists – not exactly the most exciting reading matter. However, in 17th and 18th century England the respective market was highly competitive.

In an enormous heroic poem, the former national epic of the Germans tells of political conflict in the early Middle Ages, deadly attempts at emancipation and (almost) immortalising dragon blood.

There are moments that change the world. The Lisbon earthquake was one of them. Europe’s educated elite wondered: How can a gracious God let something like that happen? Of course, there had been terrible natural disasters before – but there had never been such a high amount of reports on one of them.