This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Nach einem sehr bereichernden Workshop zur vormodernen Mobilität in Osnabrück im letzten Juni wollen Christoph Mauntel und ich das Format dieses Jahr in Kiel fortsetzen. Der CFP findet sich hier: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve.... Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge und sind dankbar fürs Teilen. 🤗

Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.

Publication – « Routes d’Orient et d’Occident », éd. Benhima Yassir, Gilotte Sophie, Rousset Marie-Odile (Médiévales, 89) rmblf.be/2026/01/02/p...

This is a useful website to quickly view different map projections. Useful when you want to map a specific region and aren't sure what projection to use. Also, it's just good fun to play with: buff.ly/36nJtxQ

Oops, left out the url to my web site that explains me more fully...https://kgeographer.org

Driving home for #Christmas 🎄 #medievalsky #medievaladvent The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.705, f. 33r

Kysely historiallisista teistä on käynnissä. Väitöskirjatutkija Katrina Virtanen @utu.fi kerää tämän päivän kokemuksia ja muistoja arkisesta kulkemisesta ja suunnitellusta matkanteosta Suomen vanhoilla teillä. Yhteistyössä @viabundus.bsky.social & Postimuseo. Lisätietoa: sites.utu.fi/humanisticgi...

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.

The DIGARV book is now OA! Lots of useful & interesting digital humanities stuff in there. Chapter 9 is about/by the Mapping Lived Religion project team. Check it out! www.vitterhetsakademien.se/nyheter/nyhe...

Tell your boss that I gave you the rest of the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org

To GLAM colleagues: Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ride on, little woodblock printed postal messenger being used on all title pages of every new issue of a certain #earlymodern German newspaper. Ride on. Enjoy yourself.

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Our article, co-authored with Matteo Rossi, “Modelling Economic and Human Mobility in the Landscapes of Monti Lucretili, Lazio, Italy: a Microregional Approach over the Longue Durée” has just been published in Acta Archaeologica @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1163/1600...

Congratulations on your excellent new home, @rdjhss.bsky.social ! The future of scientific publishing should be oa and publicly funded. We're proud to have contributed to the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences: researchdatajournal.org/article/view...

🔔 Newsflash! 📅 As of today Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences has transferred to @openjournalsnl.bsky.social, a platform specifically for diamond open access publishing.

Media reports are often overly simplified, obviously. Our friends at itiner-e were more cautious in their publications, though. For scientific discourse, it is a great proof of methodology. Feedback on details are certainly welcome and will be integrated in v. 2.0, for sure.

Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Cool: a medieval 14th c. wooden road was discovered in Antwerp. Photo: Stad Antwerpen

The methodology is here (where they're quite a bit more modest about what they've done than the accompanying media coverage would suggest):

Well this is fab - Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads: the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Hasn't quite reached Scotland yet (plenty of Roman roads up here yet to be added), but fun to explore! itiner-e.org

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4qMYGRw

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Shoutout to our friends from itiner-e.org Great work, as always!

Interesting proof of concept in using GIS to predict most probable routes. Not unlike what @jwhpverhagen.bsky.social and team did in the Limits of the Limes project.

In mediaeval times, maps were made by laying a very big piece of paper over the town, and rubbing the surface with a crayon.

Huh, the Blood! Legend has it, that in the 1380s, three bleeding hosts were discovered in Wilsnack in Brandenburg, which quickly became one of Northern Europe's most famous pilgrim’s destinations. The little village built an oversized church, which even today impresses by its sheer size. (1/3)

Huh, the Blood! Legend has it, that in the 1380s, three bleeding hosts were discovered in Wilsnack in Brandenburg, which quickly became one of Northern Europe's most famous pilgrim’s destinations. The little village built an oversized church, which even today impresses by its sheer size. (1/3)

Gefeliciteerd #Amsterdam youtu.be/k2F-pO8b8vU?...

"Our story begins over 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. As glaciers melted and the climate warmed, people began moving back into what we now call Britain." What a great way to start the archaeology story of the A66 highway upgrade! bit.ly/48IbjqE

Stanford created a similar tool for the Roman Empire more than a decade ago: orbis.stanford.edu. ORBIS lets you calculate travel times by land, river, and sea, with options for different modes of transport and travel speeds. It's truly an amazing resource and I'm so grateful they keep hosting it.

Lets get the horses saddled and off we go! Happy you like it. We are always looking for professional and volunteer cooperation to expand the map, it is quite fun to recreate the routes.

It was my great good fortune that @docuracy.co.uk was ready, willing and more than able to take over from me at @whgazetteer last year (reflected in the github commits). Learned there is now a full, non-beta 3.1 release. The many updates and future plans are listed here: github.com/WorldHistori...

Nothing but the roads of Canada. HT @EarthArtAus

Sieht spannend aus, hört sich spannend an - auf nach Nürnberg!😇 #medievalsky #museum #Nürnberg

Working on pre-modern customs records, in any context? We're running a session "Quayside and Custom House: Customs Accounts as a Source for Medieval and Early Modern Urban History" at EAUH 2026 Barcelona. Paper submissions very welcome! www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se...

Tagber: Roms Spuren am Bayerischen Limes – Römische Straßen und Altwege zwischen Alpen und Donau https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-157649 Ingolstadt, 18.07.2025-19.07.2025, Nadin Burkhardt / Michael Rathmann, ATRIUM - Institut für Altertumswissenschaften der Katholischen …

Look what we have here then.

Elegant party (& fortune-telling Roma) on roadway beyond the castle, 1592. By Jacob Grimmer, whose day is today.

The roads of the Roman Empire. 🔎 researchremora

Hey, history and medievalist friends. If you're doing any teaching on maps this semester, I have a couple of digital resources you might find useful. #skystorians 🗃️ 1. Matthew Paris's Map A fully annotated & interactive copy of Paris's c.1250 map of England. 1/3 historiacartarum.org/annotated-cl...

Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages to Open at @gettymuseum.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/08/goin... #medievalmanuscripts #travel #getty

Eine Stunde #History - Deutschlandfunk Nova: Mittelalterliche Handelswege - Die #ViaRegia www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/via-...

People in 1830 had their minds blown when travel times were down massively compared to 150 years earlier.

Today I start my research trip sailing down the River Seine from Paris to Honfleur (via a few stops) in a reconstruction of the Klåstad cargo ship built in 998. It’s the penultimate stage in the ship’s journey from Rome to London throughout the summer. I’ll post updates as we go #Saga25 #MedievalSky