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I enjoyed the reminder by @brilliantmaps how exciting the age of railways actually must’ve been. From 1837-1875 the network in France just exploded. Imagine seeing the world open up to you so rapidly after being relatively stuck in your region for so long. Source: buff.ly/RgyNhfd
#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*
„Im 1234. Jahr n. Chr. gab es eine solch grausame Kälte, dass man von Venedig bis nach Cremona auf dem mächtigen Fluss Po mit beladenen Wagen fuhr. Der Wein gefror in den Fässern“
Wunderzeichenbuch, Augsburg, um 1550.
alte Karte Schlesien mit Breslau in der Mitte, südöstlich Brieg und Oppeln
Breslau, 11. Feb 1626
Freitags ist des Bethlens Braut [1] allhie über Nacht geblieben / die hat 40 Wägen / jeden mit 6 Pferden bei sich - Bürgerschaft mit 200 Pferden, Landobrist von Dohna und viele Adelige ihr entgegen geritten.
aus:
brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...
Time to open up the first ice roads!
www.smhi.se/vader/vader-...
2. Maantie. Maantie ei tarkoita maalla olevaa tietä, vaan on jo keskiaikaisten maan(👈!)lakien tieluokka. Maantie (r. Landsväg) oli koko maakunnan (r. Land, lat. Terra) verotalonpoikien yhteisesti ylläpitämä tie, maa/ linnavoutikuntien välinen tie. Hämeensilta oli keskiajalla yleisen maantien silta.
The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
Nach einem sehr bereichernden Workshop zur vormodernen Mobilität in Osnabrück im letzten Juni wollen Christoph Mauntel und ich das Format dieses Jahr in Kiel fortsetzen. Der CFP findet sich hier: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve.... Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge und sind dankbar fürs Teilen. 🤗
Mikola in front of a map of the Lithuanian roads
Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.
Publication – « Routes d’Orient et d’Occident », éd. Benhima Yassir, Gilotte Sophie, Rousset Marie-Odile (Médiévales, 89)
rmblf.be/2026/01/02/p...
This is a useful website to quickly view different map projections. Useful when you want to map a specific region and aren't sure what projection to use. Also, it's just good fun to play with: buff.ly/36nJtxQ
Oops, left out the url to my web site that explains me more fully...https://kgeographer.org
Driving home for #Christmas 🎄
#medievalsky #medievaladvent
The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.705, f. 33r
Holidays! 🥳🥳🥳
Kysely historiallisista teistä on käynnissä. Väitöskirjatutkija Katrina Virtanen @utu.fi kerää tämän päivän kokemuksia ja muistoja arkisesta kulkemisesta ja suunnitellusta matkanteosta Suomen vanhoilla teillä. Yhteistyössä @viabundus.bsky.social & Postimuseo. Lisätietoa:
sites.utu.fi/humanisticgi...
Itineraries of 25 Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, 919 to 1519
Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common, yet insufficiently researched pre-modern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire AD 919-1519, we argue that rulers focused on monitoring `marginal' elites. Powerful rulers could count on family members and thus targeted unrelated local elites. Weak emperors had to monitor their less loyal relatives and left unrelated nobles unvisited. We reconstruct emperors' itineraries from 72'665 dated and geolocated documents and measure territorial control by their relatives. Exploiting the weakening of imperial power through the Great Interregnum (1250-1273), we find that strong, pre-1250 emperors frequented areas controlled by their relatives relatively less. In contrast, family control increased visits post-1273. Causal identification rests on the discontinuous reduction of emperors' power through the Great Interregnum and differences in family relations between subsequent emperors. The results show strategic itinerant rule as an important but understudied form of governance.
🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z
Mikola in front of a map of the Lithuanian roads
Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.
The DIGARV book is now OA! Lots of useful & interesting digital humanities stuff in there.
Chapter 9 is about/by the Mapping Lived Religion project team.
Check it out!
www.vitterhetsakademien.se/nyheter/nyhe...
Visbundus Suomi -projektin väitöskirjatutkija Katrina Virtasen tuore projektiesittely Positio-lehdessä. Katrina kerää materiaalia historiallisista teistä kokemuksena, linkki kyselyyn artikkelissa. Eikun vastaamaan!
@viabundus.bsky.social #VuabundusSuomi
Tell your boss that I gave you the rest of the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org
To GLAM colleagues:
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Ride on, little woodblock printed postal messenger being used on all title pages of every new issue of a certain #earlymodern German newspaper. Ride on. Enjoy yourself.
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Our article, co-authored with Matteo Rossi, “Modelling Economic and Human Mobility in the Landscapes of Monti Lucretili, Lazio, Italy: a Microregional Approach over the Longue Durée” has just been published in Acta Archaeologica @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1163/1600...
Congratulations on your excellent new home, @rdjhss.bsky.social ! The future of scientific publishing should be oa and publicly funded. We're proud to have contributed to the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences: researchdatajournal.org/article/view...
🔔 Newsflash!
📅 As of today Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences has transferred to @openjournalsnl.bsky.social, a platform specifically for diamond open access publishing.
Media reports are often overly simplified, obviously. Our friends at itiner-e were more cautious in their publications, though. For scientific discourse, it is a great proof of methodology. Feedback on details are certainly welcome and will be integrated in v. 2.0, for sure.
Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
