Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities Ser.: Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies by Simon Skovgaard Boeck (2023, Hardcover)

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Title: Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies. Author: Alexandra Petrulevich. Contributor: Alexandra Petrulevich (Edited by), Simon Skovgaard Boeck (Edited by). Format: Hardback.

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PublisherARC Humanities Press
ISBN-101641894695
ISBN-139781641894692
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050387949

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Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDigital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies
Publication Year2023
SubjectMedieval, Europe / Scandinavia, World, Europe / Medieval
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
AuthorSimon Skovgaard Boeck
SeriesCollection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities Ser.
FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal907.2
Table Of 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 Blanzeflorin 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
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisThis volume examines new ways to design, develop, explore, and visualize spatial datasets to investigate spatial dimensions and world perceptions in pre-modern sources and societies., 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-provide opportunities to re-think traditional lines of research on spatiality and worldviews, encourage innovation ii 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. Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities is an exciting series that publishes both monographs and edited thematic collections is the broad areas of cultural heritage, digital humanities, collecting and collections, public history and allied areas of applied humanities. The aim is to illustrate the impact of humanities research and in particular reflect the exciting new networks developing between researchers and the cultural sector, including archives, libraries and museums, media and the arts, cultural memory and heritage institutions, festivals and tourism, and public history., 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.
LC Classification NumberD16.168
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