Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)
@emdigit.bsky.social
Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
Matching early modern place names is challenging! EMDigIt provide us with clues, including journey bearing and distance from the last stop. "Le buisson" seems like a great match for Le Haute Buisson," but we can even guess the Italian author may have meant "Dartford" where they wrote "dole(f)ort."
After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.
✨✨Maps & newspaper research from LwM & MRM teams (@danielwilson.bsky.social @joshrhodes.bsky.social @jonhistorian61.bsky.social @nottinauta.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social + more) featured in @pnas.org this week! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Historians use data science to mine the past | PNAS
Historians use data science to mine the past
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Two new teasers from the forthcoming Italian Itineraries data for routes in Italy, #16thc - #18thc. On the left, heat map showing difficulty of travel based on elevation and slope. On the right, shortest route by km between Rome and Bologna #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️
Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️
Probably one more session of tidying to go before I've got a complete route network for Italy as published #16thCentury - #18thCentury! I like this view of Northern Italy to show that the #earlymodern routes (red) are not just the Roman roads (green). 🗃️ @emdigit.bsky.social
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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)@emdigit.bsky.social · last yr.📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...
📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...
If you’re working on interpersonal encounters produced by early modern mobility, @toffolosandra.bsky.social & I are welcoming abstracts for our ‘Mobility & Encounter’ panel @srsrensoc.bsky.social in Bristol next July! Deadline 15 Sep: tinyurl.com/bdhs2hfc #skystorians #earlymodern #RenSA25
Ended up somewhat overcommitted this semester (at least given the general environmental chaos), but it is hard to regret working with so many student researchers on @emdigit.bsky.social. Just logging in to the Trello board this morning reminded me that #digitalhumanities collaboration = community ☺️
Made it to Rome, Bologna and Florence this week in #historicalGIS data cleaning for @emdigit.bsky.social. This time I'm sharing it with a page from one of the itineraries for comparison (OC1623, or Ottavio Codogno's 1623 Compendio delle poste) #earlymodern #bookhistory 🗃️
A Journey to the Far North in the Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/journey-far-north-middle-ages/ #Arctic #MedievalHistory
A Journey to the Far North in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net
The name Ohthere does not usually rank among the famous explorers of the Middle Ages, such as Leif Erikson or Marco Polo. However, his exploits are very impressive, for he would sail into the Arctic…
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New on advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/past/advance...
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*
Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities
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Progressed up to the ankle of southern Italy this week. Early modern itineraries based on named locations, narrative, topography, and Roman-modern road networks. Bonus 17C map for comparison 🤩 #historicalGIS #digitalhistory @emdigit.bsky.social
#HelloESR, Hi #skystorians, Rome is soon entering its jubilee year, so I thought I'd talk a little about the Urbs in the 1570s through the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/collection/i...
I wrote a new thing about travel and history and the human landscape. If you enjoy it please share! 👍
In Our Ancestors’ Shoes: The Slow Road to London (1604 Edition)
On finding a 1604 ‘sat-nav’ in the archives – some thoughts about how people move around long-occupied human landscapes, then and now.
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Spent the first part of today's #DayOfDH2024 in ArcGIS adjusting @emdigit.bsky.social routes (red lines) to account for elevation, Roman roads (blue lines), and locations where authors indicated crossing bodies of water (blue points) or shifting to travel by boat (icons).
looking forward to some mappy fun in FL! (This Thursday evening)
Carrie Beneš@cebenes.bsky.social · 2y agoPUBLIC EVENT! @lauramorreale.bsky.social, Jessica Maier, Chet Van Duzer, & I are hosting "Imagining the World in the Renaissance": fountains, mountains, camels, & sea monsters! At NCF, Thurs 12/5, 5-7pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/1076710904... Via Mellon & nehgov.bsky.social (MS here BNCF II.II.69)
Oops, trying again with better quality images and alt text. Haven't had my coffee yet ☕
Today's accomplishment: prepping this interactive map for Wednesday's @emdigit.bsky.social webinar showing the routing of #earlymodern Europe in Italian itineraries, 1562-1720 🗃️
Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians
I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq
GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians
Some days you just need to put on headphones and adjust points in GIS. Route network from four different itinerary books published 1562-1610 shown here w/ borders c.1600 @emdigit.bsky.social #earlymodern #digitalhistory
MarineLives is launching a Collaboratory for doctoral students interested in the application of large language models to historical research #earlymodern #Skystorians @tedunderwood.me @timhitchcock.bsky.social github.com/Addaci/marin...
Rachel Midura@rmidura.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to talk about @emdigit.bsky.social for the RSA Digital Humanities Speaker Seminar on November 13th, especially with Giovanna Ceserani! EMDigIt and World of Travel have so much to say to each other about the history of travel #earlymodern #17thcentury #digitalhistory
For comparison, this is what Google Maps will show you, even putting it on "walking," as I know many of us do to try and get a sense of earlier travel. Those Swiss passes were not the optimal choice up until the modern era, in most cases! ⛰️
