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Digital historian of early modern communication networks. 16-18C travel, surveillance, espionage 💌🕵️🧭
Jun 30, 2021 11 tweets 6 min read
My article "Itinerating Europe: Early Modern Spatial Networks in Printed Itineraries, 1545–1700" in the Journal of Social History is available as of yesterday! In celebration, here is a brief thread on #earlymodern navigation 1/10 Illustration from Franciscu... I'm a traveler in sixteenth-century Europe- say, a northern scholar headed south to Italy. How do I know how to get there? Certain pilgrimage routes are well known, in fact, the earliest printed road maps shows the "Roman Way" (orientation flipped!) 2/10 Erhard Etzlaub's Romweg Map...