Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The edge sheet is structured for ease of network analysis. Here is an example in Gephi showing the modularity, or denser groupings within the data. Not necessarily the communities or hubs you might assume! 010
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026📯 The Core Italian Itineraries are now available in easy-to-use TSV format with accompanying Data Vocabulary on the project GitHub: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...github.comEMDigIt/Core Italian Itineraries at main · rmidura/EMDigItEmDigIt (Early Modern Digital Itineraries) explores spatial data in early modern travel guides. It processes route details, stops, and points of interest from historic itinerary books using Python,... 133
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Some variations give a sense of how certain sounds get lost in pronunciation, such as Enzweihingen to "nitzingen." Others seem to relate to common print errors, such as putting a letter upside down ("Chiva" to "china"). 000
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The reason for this was often a Europe-wide game of telephone. Authors copied from one another, or "translated" as best they could from the spoken toponyms. Many places likely did not have definitive spellings! Ameyugo in Spain, for example, appears as "magnogo," "mehingo," "meugo," and "mognogo." 131
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Matching early modern place names is challenging! EMDigIt provide us with clues, including journey bearing and distance from the last stop. "Le buisson" seems like a great match for Le Haute Buisson," but we can even guess the Italian author may have meant "Dartford" where they wrote "dole(f)ort." 1104
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026And of course, if you'd like to find out more about Europe's chief route-makers and -takers, check out Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (also a free Ebook) cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...cornellpress.cornell.eduPostal Intelligence by Rachel Midura | Paperback | Cornell University PressPostal Intelligence connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolutio... 0102
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If you'd like to find out more about the making of the dataset, check out this brief project piece published last December in DigItalia: digitalia.cultura.gov.it/article/view...digitalia.cultura.gov.it 120
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026You can explore the data on a demonstration map (virginiatech.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...), and better yet, easily add it to your own projects on travel, correspondence, or exchange. The data is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, so please do remix and tag!virginiatech.maps.arcgis.comSidebar 120
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720. 24119
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 02/05/2025✨✨Maps & newspaper research from LwM & MRM teams (@danielwilson.bsky.social @joshrhodes.bsky.social @jonhistorian61.bsky.social @nottinauta.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social + more) featured in @pnas.org this week! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgHistorians use data science to mine the past | PNASHistorians use data science to mine the past 12111
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025As well as times based on mode of travel. Based on current ratios (still being tested against sources) this 398.48 km path from Rome to Bologna would take fast couriers at least 26 hours (~3 days), riders around 60 (~7 days), and pedestrians around 100 (~12 days). 040
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025The EMDigIt platform will also provide more details, such as the stops on this journey: Rome, La Storta, Isola Farnese, Campagnano di Roma, Monterosi, Ronciglione, Monti Cimini, Viterbo, Montefiascone, Capraccia, Bolsena, San Lorenzo Nuovo, Acquapendente... (etc.) 130
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Two new teasers from the forthcoming Italian Itineraries data for routes in Italy, #16thc - #18thc. On the left, heat map showing difficulty of travel based on elevation and slope. On the right, shortest route by km between Rome and Bologna #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️ 1297
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️ 03716
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Probably one more session of tidying to go before I've got a complete route network for Italy as published #16thCentury - #18thCentury! I like this view of Northern Italy to show that the #earlymodern routes (red) are not just the Roman roads (green). 🗃️ @emdigit.bsky.social 27318
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025@toffolosandra.bsky.social @flabruni.bsky.social @kaylaecampana.bsky.social @viabundus.bsky.social @geophilologist.bsky.social 063
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi... 39041
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · 28/08/2024If you’re working on interpersonal encounters produced by early modern mobility, @toffolosandra.bsky.social & I are welcoming abstracts for our ‘Mobility & Encounter’ panel @srsrensoc.bsky.social in Bristol next July! Deadline 15 Sep: tinyurl.com/bdhs2hfc #skystorians #earlymodern #RenSA25 11713
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Ended up somewhat overcommitted this semester (at least given the general environmental chaos), but it is hard to regret working with so many student researchers on @emdigit.bsky.social. Just logging in to the Trello board this morning reminded me that #digitalhumanities collaboration = community ☺️ 041
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Made it to Rome, Bologna and Florence this week in #historicalGIS data cleaning for @emdigit.bsky.social. This time I'm sharing it with a page from one of the itineraries for comparison (OC1623, or Ottavio Codogno's 1623 Compendio delle poste) #earlymodern #bookhistory 🗃️ 1234
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 08/12/2024A Journey to the Far North in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2023/12/journe… #Arctic #MedievalHistorymedievalists.netA Journey to the Far North in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.netThe name Ohthere does not usually rank among the famous explorers of the Middle Ages, such as Leif Erikson or Marco Polo. However, his exploits are very impressive, for he would sail into the Arctic… 0247
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024New on advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/past/advance...academic.oup.comThe Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities 094
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Progressed up to the ankle of southern Italy this week. Early modern itineraries based on named locations, narrative, topography, and Roman-modern road networks. Bonus 17C map for comparison 🤩 #historicalGIS #digitalhistory @emdigit.bsky.social 1304
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Johann Petitjean @johannpetitjean.bsky.social · 25/11/2024#HelloESR, Hi #skystorians, Rome is soon entering its jubilee year, so I thought I'd talk a little about the Urbs in the 1570s through the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/collection/i... 14514
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/12/2024I wrote a new thing about travel and history and the human landscape. If you enjoy it please share! 👍loreandordure.comIn Our Ancestors’ Shoes: The Slow Road to London (1604 Edition)On finding a 1604 ‘sat-nav’ in the archives – some thoughts about how people move around long-occupied human landscapes, then and now. 1011657
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Spent the first part of today's #DayOfDH2024 in ArcGIS adjusting @emdigit.bsky.social routes (red lines) to account for elevation, Roman roads (blue lines), and locations where authors indicated crossing bodies of water (blue points) or shifting to travel by boat (icons). 0243
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 02/12/2024looking forward to some mappy fun in FL! (This Thursday evening) 022
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Sorry, would need a little more info to say! 000
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)William Purkis @williampurkis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Pilgrimage contents (by request) #newbooks #medievalsky #skystorians #pilgrimage 1397
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Oops, trying again with better quality images and alt text. Haven't had my coffee yet ☕ 0155
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We're working on it! :) @emdigit.bsky.social 2150496
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Today's accomplishment: prepping this interactive map for Wednesday's @emdigit.bsky.social webinar showing the routing of #earlymodern Europe in Italian itineraries, 1562-1720 🗃️ 0183
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians 310560
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq 92302137
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 09/11/2024GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians 128545
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Some days you just need to put on headphones and adjust points in GIS. Route network from four different itinerary books published 1562-1610 shown here w/ borders c.1600 @emdigit.bsky.social #earlymodern #digitalhistory 68317
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 07/11/2024MarineLives is launching a Collaboratory for doctoral students interested in the application of large language models to historical research #earlymodern #Skystorians @tedunderwood.me @timhitchcock.bsky.social github.com/Addaci/marin... 1128
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 15/10/2024For comparison, this is what Google Maps will show you, even putting it on "walking," as I know many of us do to try and get a sense of earlier travel. Those Swiss passes were not the optimal choice up until the modern era, in most cases! ⛰️ 051
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 15/10/2024Making progress, bit by bit! Showing the successful use of @emdigit.bsky.social to find the best #earlymodern journey, here from Milan to Erding in Bavaria. Eight Italian-language itineraries printed in 1562-1720 make up a network of more than 4.5k nodes and 7.5k edges. Path improvements up next! 3162
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 10/09/2024CfP #IMC2025 – “Digital and Quantitative Approaches to Medieval Mobility” This session explores innovative digital and/or quantitative methodologies for studying medieval mobility. Please submit your application to laury.sarti@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de by 24th September 2024. 197
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 08/08/2024Happening today! Come learn about new work mapping pilgrims, roads, and of course, itineraries of all varieties, featuring @viabundus.bsky.social, @geophilologist.bsky.social, @toffolosandra.bsky.social #dh2024 063
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)The Viabundus Map @viabundus.bsky.social · 08/08/2024Viabundus on the Road: Meet our PI Bart Holterman today in Washington D.C. at #DH2024 (dh2024.adho.org). In the panel "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" @rmidura.bsky.social and other @emdigit.bsky.social members discuss premodern spatial data. Fresh! 054
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 07/08/2024CFP: Travellers in Ottoman Lands, places forgotten, places remembered | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents t.co/VAf3jkOt7Zt.coCFP: Travellers in Ottoman Lands, places forgotten, places remembered | MEMOsThree days of presentation sessions in the historical neighbourhoods of Karaköy and Beyoğlu will be followed by one day of excursions. 024
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 05/08/2024Arrived at #dh2024. Pleased to be able to sit in on @neh-odh.bsky.social - funded @emdigit.bsky.social workshop that's happening before the conference. 0123
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 04/08/2024Participants are gathering in Arlington for the final (🥲) EMDigIt workshop on Monday to present their work over the last year. You can be a part, too, at the "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" panel at #DH2024 this Thursday (2-3:30PM)! 020
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 17/07/2024#EarlyModern GPS in action 🗺️ #17thC Frontispiece from Johann Cristoph Beer, Der getreue Reiß-Gefert (1686) 0166
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 16/07/2024Question for #17thc #EarlyModern #historians: I've often seen connections drawn between cartographic/atlas production and the Peace of Westphalia, but does anyone know what evidence exists for the use of maps by diplomats/rulers involved? 🗃️ 156
Reposted by Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 08/07/2024Now published OA! You can download the book here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... Thanks @amsterdamupress.bsky.social & @erikagaffney.bsky.social & congratulations Nuno Vila-Santa! 👏👏👏 #seafever #history 23327