Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies

• Main Authors: Petrulevich, Alexandra, Skovgaard Boeck, Simon
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Arc Humanities Press 2023
• Edition: 1
• Series: Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities - ARC
• Subjects: Biography, Literature and Literary studies; classical and medieval; digital humanities; early modern; East Norse; European history; GIS; History; History and Archaeology; humanities research intrastructures; Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies; Library and information sciences / Museology; linked open data; Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval; Literary studies: general; Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient; Literature: history and criticism; medieval; Museology and heritage studies; Old Norse; place-names; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; spatial analysis; spatial humanities; spatial infrastructure;spatiality;Medieval Studies;place names;Linked Open Data;spatial humanities;Geographic information systems (GIS); spatial references; spatial research infrastructures in the humanities; spatial-temporal data modelling; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::D Biography; thema EDItEUR::G Reference; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
• ISBN: 1802700803; 9781641894692; 1641894695; 9781802700800; 9781802700794; 180270079X
• DOI: 10.17302/CDH-9781802700794

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.