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Independent Crusaders Mapping Project, 1st. Edition, Nicholas Paul, James Doherty Phd, Laura Morreale Phd Jul 2017

Independent Crusaders Mapping Project, 1st. Edition, Nicholas Paul, James Doherty Phd, Laura Morreale Phd

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The Independent Crusaders Mapping Project provides a database, map, documents and pedagogical tools to inform audiences about expeditions undertaken by western European knights to the Holy Land and more specifically Jerusalem in the years between the papally sanctioned Crusades.

The form of the project being archived here is the first iteration of the Independent Crusaders Mapping Project. It is the result of a number of decisions made in the course of the project's development. The project was always intended to include three parts, TEI encoded charters, a map visualizing data found in those charters, and a spreadsheet or database that …


Exploring Place In The French Of Italy, 1st Edition, Laura Morreale Phd, Heather V. Hill Oct 2015

Exploring Place In The French Of Italy, 1st Edition, Laura Morreale Phd, Heather V. Hill

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The goal of the site is to map all of the place names mentioned in a selection of medieval French-language works created or copied on the Italian peninsula from roughly 1250 to 1500 and featured on Fordham's French of Italy website.

Mapping place names provides a view of these texts that varies from more traditional approaches, which often focus on close reading or the examination of one particular textual tradition over time. Exploring these texts from a more distant vantage point is a valuable exercise for both literary and historical interpretation – the maps you see displayed here suggest patterns …