Visualization, mapping, and the history of mobility in the Middle Ages

This paper reviews digital methods of scholarship for visualization and mapping, and it then shows how creative and experimental visualization can help us to study the extensive networks that lay behind human mobility, from trade to war, communication, pilgrimage, migration, and much else. In the process, the paper will familiarize historians with the key aspects of digital methods from amalgamating large quantities of data to finding patterns within that data. This discussion of visualization along with the sample maps should demonstrate that digital methods offer a new tool to enhance traditional scholarship and shape richer facts and arguments

Ancient history · Geography · Visualization · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Data Visualization and Analytics · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Geographic Information Systems Studies · History