Explore Early Modern Mapping Projects

April 12, 2026 Katherine Kania

Early Modern Mapping Projects – Reference List

Visualizations

• Death by Numbers
  • DataScribe, Tropy, Omeka, data-driven historical research, GIS, data visualizations, London

GIS

• Decima
  • GIS, census data, population data, Florence, georectified historic map
• La Sfera
  • Manuscripts, Maps, trade routes, Italy, Mediterranean world, navigation, interactive map
• Mapping Mandeville Project
  • Medieval, mappaemundi, the Hereford map, Sir John Mandeville, interactive image of digitized map (cities, people, monsters, legends, etc), annotated image.
• Books of Duchesses: Mapping Women Book Owners 1350-1550
  • Maps data related to medieval laywomen and their books, interactive map of Europe, network analysis/visualization
• The Atlas of Early Printing
  • Interactive map, early history of printing in Europe, 1450-1500
• Mapping the Medieval Woman
  • Interactive map, annotated image, medieval France, urban history
• The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource
  • Scotland, place-names, interactive map, modern or historical base map, 1000-1900
• The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML)
  • GUI – Graphical user interface, early modern London

StoryMap

• Incunabula: The Art & History of Printing in Western Europe, c. 1450-1500
  • ArcGIS StoryMap, map visualization, interactive map

Network Analysis

• Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)
  • Network analysis, travel itineraries, palladio, python, transkribus
• Mapping the Republic of Letters
  • Network analysis, visualizations

Publications/Datasets

• Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350-1800)
  • Dataset, geopkg files for download, the Netherlands, spatial features
• Visualising Urban Change. Bruges (Belgium), 1300-1700
  • PDF with visualizations, 1300-1700, GIS, Belgium