{"id":1638,"date":"2018-03-03T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/?page_id=1638"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:43:47","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Egodocuments.ch is a database featuring more than 1,700 personal writings \u2013 autobiographies, diaries of all kinds, travel accounts, account books, chronicles, and family books \u2013 written between 1500 and 1820, and preserved in the main archives and libraries across Switzerland\u2019s four linguistic regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">As a work in progress, the platform provides access to a growing number of digitized documents and transcriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Do you own or have you discovered an interesting, unpublished personal document? Are you a researcher interested in contributing a document presentation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Feel free to get in touch with us via the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/contact-us\/\">contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">a<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/img_1892-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/img_1892-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/img_1892-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/img_1892-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/img_1892-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/img_1892.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Livre avec notices sur la r\u00e9colte des vignes de la famille de Kalbertmatten, Archives de l&#8217;Etat du Valais, De Kalbermatten, L9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e3ecf009dff5809b109471418a294378 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b01818\"><strong>Current Project: A Study of Personal Writing Practices in Valais (1500\u20131820)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The present project, carried out by Sylvie Moret Petrini, examines practices of personal writing in the Valais region during the early modern period (1500\u20131820), studying their specific features and developments. This territory serves as a privileged observatory for exploring the very status of everyday writing and its rise\u2014as well as the purposes that male and female writers assigned to these practices\u2014within a context that is both Catholic and rural. At the same time, the project aims to bring greater visibility to particularly interesting, meaningful, or distinctive texts preserved in the private collections of the canton\u2019s archival institutions, by by describing them on egodocuments.ch.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/rgb-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5528 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/rgb-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/rgb-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/rgb-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/rgb-1536x1134.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/files\/2025\/10\/rgb.jpg 1625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Update : 13.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egodocuments.ch is a database featuring more than 1,700 personal writings \u2013 autobiographies, diaries of all kinds, travel accounts, account books, chronicles, and family books \u2013 written between 1500 and 1820, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1511,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1638","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/egodocuments\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}