archive of documents

The medieval world order

Who wanted the crusades?

The city

The self-conception of the bourgeoisie and the new money market

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

by Herbert George Wells

Aldous Huxley

Published 1948

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Roman Republic - The Roman army as the base of the Roman Empire

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Introduction Roman Republic

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The poor man in Tockenburg

Oblomow

The golden Age / Dream Days

Youth without God

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

The sea wolf

Max Havelaar

Carmen

L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, 1665

publiziert 1716

New Atlas, 1710

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen of Florence, London 1680

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Madame Bovary

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Der Steppenwolf

Meistererzählungen

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Il Milione

Meistererzählungen

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Consolation of Philosophy

Four books on measurement

Conversation Book

Table talk

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

An analysis on social justice

1816: The year without a Summer

Change of Climate as trigger

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) experiences an identity crisis.

Russia and the terror crisis under Czar Alexanders II. (1855-1881)

A coin named "Waserthaler" and a mayor who was thought to have betrayed his hometown. Not true – read the truth.

The search for Aesillas leads us to the means the Romans used to conquer Asia Minor.

Where did the meat come from which was consumed in medieval Nuremberg?

The bloody end of the Staufer and the conquest of Sicily.

in Classical Antiquity

In the second half of the 17th century, Scotland became part of the UK

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

15 stories

Louis XIV of France, the Sun King balanced his state budget by means of a housekeeping book ....

The legendary wealth of king Kroesus is still known today ....

... how athletes were honored during the era of the Roman Empire

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

19th century Germany was bothered by many different currencies. Here, you learn how they became one.

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Silver was incredibly precious in the early Middle Ages. How it was extracted, we see in Melle.

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

beautiful High Relief Coinage

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Bars of precious metal as Currency, Precursor of coined money and to store Wealth

two examples

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Ursula Kampmann

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a view from history

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a video podcast

a video podcast

Nero‘s Propaganda

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

minted its own Large Silver Coins on Tyrolean Model in 1494 A.D.

a video podcast

from the French Role Model with explicit Alpine Connotation and Democratic Topics

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Augsburg‘s bloom till 1618, tax rolls reflect its decline since the Thirty Years‘ War

Milan between 1412 and 1447

trying to modernize Russia - and fell Victim to the troubled Times

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Diadoch in Macedonia, Greece and Asia c. 290 B.C.

5th Century B.C. Athens

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Features of the Human Face on Coins

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

... since when has money been in existence?

... and its consequences

The Conflict of Investitures was not only a matter of clerical authority, but also of money.

She was a stunner. Daughter of an emperor, hostage and widow of a Gothic king ...

a coin-podcast

a coin podcast

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD