1st Edition
Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence Historical GIS and the Early Modern City
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
Biography
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.
"This volume is one of the first to address the strengths and challenges of digital work focused on the historical data provided by one city. Nicholas Terpstra and his team have developed a model project to show how new technologies can transform and enhance our historical understanding of places and spaces, breaking down traditional divisions between disciplines and forging new capacities to communicate scholarly information."
Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University, USA
"A highly innovative, fascinating study that will open up new horizons, this groundbreaking book is the first to analyse Renaissance urban history using the powerful tools of digital humanities. This is a highly recommended study, written in non-technical language, of what mapping tools can and cannot do for the study of urban history."
Kathleen Christian, The Open University, UK
