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Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies
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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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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Half-title, Series information, Title page, Copyright information
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Table of contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-xiii
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  1. Introduction
  2. Alexandra Petrulevich and Simon Skovgaard Boeck
  3. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part One Digital Spatial Infrastructures in the Humanities
  1. Chapter 1 Norse World from Plan to Action: Building a Digital Gazetteer of East Norse Medieval Literature Step by Step
  2. Alexandra Petrulevich and Simon Skovgaard Boeck
  3. pp. 15-32
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  1. Chapter 2 Mapping Saints: Creating a Digital Spatial Research Infrastructure to Study Medieval Lived Religion
  2. Sara Ellis Nilsson, Terese Zachrisson, Anders Fröjmark, Lena Liepe, and Johan Åhlfeldt
  3. pp. 33-58
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  1. 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
  2. Emily Lethbridge
  3. pp. 59-90
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  1. Chapter 4 TORA: Topographical Register at the Swedish National Archives
  2. Olof Karsvall
  3. pp. 91-114
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  1. Chapter 5 Toward Digital Spatiality: Rethinking the World’s Largest Place-Name Collection
  2. Björn Karlsson, Kristina Neumüller, and Elin Pihl
  3. pp. 115-134
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  1. Part Two Building and Sustaining Digital Spatial Infrastructures: Challenges and Solutions
  1. Chapter 6 Place-Name Databases: A Spatio-Temporal Mess
  2. Peder Gammeltoft
  3. pp. 137-158
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  1. Chapter 7 Sustainability and Best Practices for Linked Data Heritage Resources: Some Case Studies From Sweden
  2. Agnieszka Backman and Marcus Smith
  3. pp. 159-184
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  1. Chapter 8 Integrating Time and Space in a Digital-Historical Administrative Atlas
  2. Peder Dam
  3. pp. 185-204
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  1. Chapter 9 A Digital Periegesis
  2. Anna Foka, Elton Barker, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Nasrin Mostofian, Brady Kiesling, Linda Talatas, O. Cenk Demiroglu, and Kajsa Palm
  3. pp. 205-224
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  1. Part Three The Norse Perception of the World: Medieval Spatiality in the Digital Age
  1. Chapter 10 Flores Travels to Babylon: Flores Och Blanzeflor in Its EuropeanContext
  2. Sofia Lodén
  3. pp. 227-242
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  1. Chapter 11 Place-Name Variation in Medieval Literature in the Digital Age
  2. Alexander Petrulevich
  3. pp. 243-266
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  1. Chapter 12 Nameless Places
  2. Simon Skovgaard Boeck
  3. pp. 267-280
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  1. Concluding Remarks
  2. Stuart Dunn
  3. pp. 281-290
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 291-298
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