Are the classical historical geography of the Byzantine world and Gis technology a contradiction?

On the usage of contemporary technologies in the humanities

St, Mihailo, Popović

Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta

50-2

1025

1039

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881302025P

2013-2020/03/08/22:31:34

The article highlights the latest developments in the field of Digital Humanities. It indicates in which ways these technologies are already used in the historical and geographical science throughout the world and how they could be integrated systematically into Byzantine Studies. In the first part of the article international projects, which are based on GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and their links in the World Wide Web are presented. In the second part the author shows on the basis of his scholarly results on the historical geography of Byzantine Macedonia, how medieval written sources can be transferred into digital format in order to achieve a higher level of spatial data analysis. The neglect of this important and recent scholarly approach in the 21st century could lead to the marginalisation of Byzantine Studies in general, and of the historical geography of the Byzantine Empire in particular. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015: Hrišćanska kultura na Balkanu u srednjem veku: Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od 9. do 15. veka]

GIS, Macedonia, Digital Humanities, Historical geography, дигиталне хуманистичке науке, Историјска географија, Македонија