Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies
Published on 14. April 2023
310 pages
978-1-80270-079-4 (ISBN)
Description
The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open source databases, and interactive resources utilizing a rich variety of source materials-place names, early modern cadastral maps, medieval literature and art, Viking Age and medieval runic inscriptions-provides opportunities to re-think traditional lines of research on spatiality and worldviews, encourage innovation in methodology, and engage critically with digital outcomes. In this book, Nordic scholars of philology, onomastics, history, geography, literary studies, and digital humanities examine multiple aspects of ten large- and small-scale digital spatial infrastructures from the early stages of development to the practical applications of digital tools for studying spatial thinking and knowledge in pre-modern sources and societies.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
York
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
16 farbige Abbildungen, 6 s/w Abbildungen
5 Illustrations, black and white; 16 Illustrations, color; b/w line drawings
ISBN-13
978-1-80270-079-4 (9781802700794)
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Alexandra Petrulevich | Simon Skovgaard Boeck
Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies
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04/2023
Arc Humanities Press
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Persons
Petrulevich Alexandra :
Alexandra Petrulevich is Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her scholarly interests include Scandinavian philology, onomastics, digital humanities, and spatial analysis of language data. Skovgaard Boeck Simon :
Simon Skovgaard Boeck is senior editor at the Society for Danish Language and Literature, where his work focuses on medieval and renaissance Danish language and literature.
Alexandra Petrulevich is Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her scholarly interests include Scandinavian philology, onomastics, digital humanities, and spatial analysis of language data. Skovgaard Boeck Simon :
Simon Skovgaard Boeck is senior editor at the Society for Danish Language and Literature, where his work focuses on medieval and renaissance Danish language and literature.
Content
"Introduction," by Alexandra Petrulevich and Simon Skovgaard Boeck Chapter 1: "Norse World from Plan to Action: Building a Digital Gazetteer of East Norse Medieval Literature Step by Step," by Alexandra Petrulevich and Simon Skovgaard Boeck Chapter 2: "Mapping Saints: Creating a Digital Spatial Research Infrastructure to Study Medieval Lived Religion," by Sara Ellis Nilsson, Terese Zachrisson, Anders Fröjmark, Lena Liepe, and Johan Åhlfeldt Chapter 3: "Medieval to Modern: Using Spatial Data from the Digital Projects Icelandic Saga Map and Nafnið.Is to Explore the Interaction between Narrative and Place in Iceland," by Emily Lethbridge Chapter 4: "Tora: Topographical Register at the Swedish National Archives," by Olof Karsvall Chapter 5: "Towards Digital Spatiality: Rethinking the World's Largest Place-Name Collection," by Björn Karlsson, Kristina Neumüller, and Elin Pihl Chapter 6: "Place-Name Databases-A Spatio-Temporal Mess," by Peder Gammeltoft Chapter 7: "Sustainability and Best Practices for Linked Data Heritage Resources: Some Case Studies from Sweden," by Agnieszka Backman and Marcus Smith Chapter 8: "Integrating Time and Space in a Digital-Historical Administrative Atlas," by Peder Dam Chapter 9: "A Digital Periegesis: Implementing Spatial Research Infrastructures for Classical History and Archaeology," by Anna Foka, Elton Barker, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Nasrin Mostofian, Brady Kiesling, Linda Talatas, O. Cenk Demiroglu, and Kajsa Palm Chapter 10: "Flores Travels to Babylon: Flores och Blanzeflor in its European Context," by Sofia Lodén Chapter 11: "Place-Name Variation in Medieval Literature in the Digital Age," by Alexandra Petrulevich Chapter 12: "Nameless Places," by Simon Skovgaard Boeck "Concluding Remarks," by Stuart Dunn
