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Perhaps you’ll know the heroes of today’s story from Wagner’s opera of the same name: apart from Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde were the most famous couple in the Arthurian legends. Today, we follow their footsteps through Europe...

He became known as the knight who fought the windmills. However, Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quixote is about much more: about chivalric novels as popular literature, the power of imagination and the danger of reading too much.

Those who discuss must argue logically. Until modern times, the philosopher’s “toolbox” needed for this was the Organon by Aristotle. Royal printer Guillaume Morel presented a neatly edited version of this work in 1562.

If you think that globalisation first started with the Internet, you’re mistaken. Global trade has existed since antiquity and its development accelerated rapidly in the 19th century. This was due to the many international expositions. Today, we’ll be talking about the Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893.

Acta Eruditorum is one of the earliest scientific journals we have. Of course, the research findings it contains have long become obsolete and outdated. It is however a valuable testimony to the beginnings of our modern scientific discussion.