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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 118: Institutional Fragmentation and Geographical Imaginations in the Early Middle Ages, I: Analysing Spatiality

Monday 5 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:ERC Project CONNEC 'Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West', Royal Holloway, University of London
Organiser:David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca
Moderator/Chair:Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 118-aGeographical Knowledge in Late Antiquity: A Unifying Cultural Item in a Period of Political Fragmentation
(Language: English)
Salvatore Liccardo, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 118-bOpenAtlas: How to Reference Historical Points in Space and Time
(Language: English)
Alexander Watzinger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 118-cOpenAtlas: How to Visualise Historical Points in Space and Time
(Language: English)
Christoph Hoffmann, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract

The study of medieval geography has become an increasingly fertile field of enquiry. In this session, the first of the three proposed on the topic, we will discuss some new approaches and methods to analyse historical geography.