Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City

ISBN-13: 9780367875824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Nicholas Terpstra; Colin Rose

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Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool. It considers two digital research projects: DECIMA, a GIS tool, and a smartphone app called Hidden Florence. Using these two projects, it explores how such projects are created; how they fa

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Mapping Sense, Space and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Nicholas Terpstra Thinking and Using DECIMA: Neighbourhoods and Occupations in Renaissance Florence Colin Rose The Route of Governmentality: Surveying and Collecting Urban Space in Ducal Florence Leah Faibisoff From the Decima to the DECIMA and Back Again: the Data Behind the Data Eduardo Fabbro Shaping the Streetscape: Institutions as Landlords in Early Modern Florence Daniel Jamison Women Behind Walls: Tracking Nuns and Socio-Spatial Networks in Sixteenth-Century Florence Sharon Strocchia and Julia Rombough Locating the Sex Trade in the Early Modern City: Space, Sense, and Regulation in Sixteenth Century Florence Nicholas Terpstra Plague and the City: Methodological Considerations in Mapping Disease in Early Modern Florence John Henderson and Colin Rose Seeing Sound: Mapping the Florentine Soundscape Niall Atkinson Mapping Fear: Plague and Perception in Florence & Tuscany Nicholas A. Eckstein Locating Experience in the Renaissance City Using Mobile App Technologies: The Hidden Florence Project Fabrizio Nevola and David Rosenthal Conclusion: Towards Early Modern Spatial Humanities

 

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Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His recent publications include Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (2013) and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative Interpretation of the Reformation (2015).

Colin Rose is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He has published on petitioning the court in early modern Parma and on vendetta and judicial practice in Bologna.