This ground-breaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a consideration of a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that situate research-led itineraries in early modern cities, proposing an innovative historical methodology and providing a novel medium for audience engagement.
This book explores how the team digitally mapped the cities of Florence, Valencia, Trento, Hamburg, Deventer and Exeter as they were during the Renaissance and what historians can learn by doing this, which would not be possible by looking at just textual and visual sources.
Providing researchers with a 'how to guide' along with case studies to explore how digital technologies can support more traditional research to move the field forward.
Fabrizio Nevola is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on urban and architectural history of early modern cities, with a particular attention for everyday life and public space in Italy, to which he also applies digital humanities approaches.
David Rosenthal is Research Associate at the University of Exeter. He works on urban social history in early modern Italy, with a focus on public space, ritual, and work. He co-created the Hidden Florence app with Fabrizio Nevola and is supervising editor of the Hidden Cities apps. He is currently editing a collection on disaster in the early modern world.
Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He works at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion in early modern Italy, focusing on civil and uncivil society, religious refugees, and the digital mapping of early modern social realities and relations.
Title: Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe (Routledge Research in Digital Humanities)
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ISBN: 9780367775919
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-03-03
Number of Pages: 258
Weight: 0.5581 kg