Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Human) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1802700803 ISBN 13: 9781802700800

Publisher: Arc Humanities Press, 2023

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802700803
• ISBN 13: 9781802700800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Petrulevich Alexandra, Skovgaard Boeck Simon