To browse Academia. This is a word-version of my unpolished and uncleaned data collected with Access in the framework of my paper "Mobility and networks from to in the letters of Gerbert of Reims. A quantitative Approach", eds.
This paper briefly reviews the main methods to study historical mobility over time. Then, it focuses on a region in southern Tuscany to run a network analysis. Some corridors have been used at least since the Etruscan period 7 th century BC. This network was resilient to political and climate changes in the Middle Ages and beyond. Viabundus is an open access online interactive map and database on roads and mobility in premodern northern and central Europe.
The database covers the period β It is designed as a network model and includes digital reconstructions of long-distance land routes and inland waterways as well as a database with information about settlements, towns, toll stations, staple markets, fairs, bridges, ferries, harbours and shipping locks. This makes it possible to use the dataset for advanced analyses with methods of gis and network analysis. With the web application and downloadable dataset, the Viabundus project has created a tool for the analysis of premodern mobility for economic transaction costs and all other kinds of historical study involving movement of people and goods.
Erik Hermans. Lazzarini eds. The definition of the Low Countries is a controversial issue, in which economic perspectives tend to fly somewhat better than political ones. Roughly speaking, the Low Countries corresponded with present-day Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, and the northern fringe of France, but it only became a distinct polity at the end of the Middle Ages.
With the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, the region was divided between twentyodd counties and duchies. Some of them came under the French Crown i.
