Schwerpunktthema Deutsche Historische Institute im Ausland Vorgestellt werden Deutsche Historische Institute im Ausland und ihre Arbeit. Der Schwerpunkt beleuchtet ihre historische Forschungsarbeit und Projekte, an denen dort gearbeitet wird. Daneben bietet der "Index der Forschung" wie gewohnt den wichtigen Uberblick uber laufende historische Forschungsarbeiten in Deutschland."

Up to the 18th century science and learning was largely an activity concerned with 'scholarly' knowledge: reading, learning, summarizing, compiling, editing and interpreting established knowledge. Here, thirteen international experts examine scholarly practices prevalent in the early modern age and the social and cultural conditions and contexts in which they were operative. Central topics are knowledge acquisition techniques and the media employed to that end (reading and summarizing), the connections between the scholarly activities of editors, philologists or academic teachers and the final products of those activities (research and teaching), the practices used for transferring knowledge to addressees (communication and representation), and finally the monitoring of scholarly communication and the rules and regulations governing it.

Jakob Friedrich Reimmann stands between Baroque and Enlightenment. He is one of the major representatives of early 18th century historia litteraria, that forgotten discipline which set out to be a history of education, science and the book, and which Reimmann himself applied systematically to a whole range of subjects and cultures. His oeuvre may be seen as typifying the tensions emerging between an inherited faith in providentially ordained history and a new skeptical/hypothetical scientific culture.