Visualizing Medieval Places: Exploring Space-Time in Medieval Literary Texts

Visualizing Medieval Places: Exploring Space-Time in Medieval Literary Texts

Here you can explore the full dataset of Visualizing Medieval Places (place names extracted from medieval French texts) built as of May 2015 and visualized with CartoDB. Approximate date of composition is provided mostly by the Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA) and has been regularized. The work abbreviation is provided by the Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français – Heidelberg.

Version 2.0 allowed for faceted browsing using metadata and complex representation of uncertain time segments (December 2013).

Versions 1.3 and 1.2 show a dataset of about 3000 data points (Summer 2013).
Versions 1.1 and 1.0 are a first set of plain views based on a small sub-set of Franco-Italian literature of about 600 data points (December 2012).


Versions 1.0-2.0 are shown with GeoTemCo, a tool for the comparative visualization of geospatial-temporal data created by Stefan Jänicke.  Read more about GeoTemCo here.  The code is available on github.