Milieus of Mobility

Delano‐Smith, Catherine

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“…In general, we can say that the territory was crisscrossed by a vast road network that connected some villages with others through an intricate labyrinth of local and regional roads that forced the traveler to choose one or the other, depending on the circumstances. The routes—the imaginary lines that, in the words of Delano-Smith [ 134 ] link a starting point with a destination—were decided before starting the journey based on the information available in maps and itineraries. Nevertheless, once the journey began, the path was chosen at a moment’s notice, often by asking the locals and other travelers.…”

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The choice of Madrid as the capital of Spain by Philip II in the light of the knowledge of his time: A transport network perspective

2022

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The suitability of Madrid as the capital of Spain is analyzed from different perspectives, questioning the belief that this choice was eminently personal or political but lacked economic rationality. The paper analyzes Madrid’s advantages over other possible capitals from the point of view of both intrinsic characteristics and those that depend on the transport network, such as the problem of supplies or the impact on the development of the surrounding territory. To deal with these questions it is necessary to consider logistical aspects that require an adjusted view of the existing transport network at that time. Using little-known primary sources and a novel methodology based on Delaunay triangulation, the 16th century Spanish transport network is reconstructed with a much higher level of accuracy than ever before. With this information, two maps are prepared that could be used for logistical analysis from a complex network perspective. The first map evaluates the real effects of the choice using an adjusted representation of the territory whilst the second map aims at avoiding the common fallacy of judging decisions made in the past applying current geographical know-how. This map, constructed with the planimetry of the 16th century, indicates how the somewhat deficient knowledge of Philip II with respect to the geographical reality of the day may have favored the choice of Madrid over Toledo, converting some Mediterranean coastal cities into more attractive options. The choice of Madrid as capital appears to be very reasonable in view of the different criteria used. Regarding supply difficulties, our results depart from traditional inclinations by deliberating the fact that the absence of a port in Madrid does not pose an insuperable problem. The latter is the case given that the advantages of maritime transport are far fewer than those usually considered, with Madrid’s geographical position offering significant advantages in terms of road transport.

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The choice of Madrid as the capital of Spain by Philip II in the light of the knowledge of his time: A transport network perspective

2022

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“…Between the middle of the sixteenth century and the nineteenth century, they were issued with increasing frequency and 'the (usually) leather-bound pocket-sized road book became the first place to turn to for an itinerary'. 5 Over the years their information became increasingly corrupted through transmission errors.…”

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The Legal Journey of Paterson’s Roads

Alexander¹

2014

Imago Mundi

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In 1771, Daniel Paterson entered into a publishing agreement with the bookseller Thomas Carnan to print and publish a travel itinerary known as Paterson's Roads. This book was to become the most enduringly popular practical road book of the period. However, Paterson and Carnon were soon embroiled in litigation. This article examines the legal cases that arose when the geographical information contained in Paterson's Roads was re-used, and improved upon, in a subsequent publication. It explores the background to the cases, focusing on what they reveal about the inner workings of the book and map trade of the period, as well as considering some of the broader historical ramifications. The article also demonstrates that these cases are of ongoing legal significance because they played an important role in developing some of the doctrines and principles of copyright law that continue to be controversial today.

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“…Tweeted in real-time, that experiencing of the slow progress of 10 or 20 miles a day, re-enforced the specific kinetic qualities of the walk in its seventeenth-century context, and thus the short daily distances covered appearing very short in relation to the overall distance to be covered. 64 The combination of twitter, blog and digital map created a thicker description of the physical walk four hundred years later, a thicker mapping of the human experience engraved in the land; the 'non-simultaneous, fractured histories that co-exist as "time-layers" in any given present' . 65 Action, the space it forms, its location in place, and its temporality are brought together: to refer again to Ethington's 'Placing the Past' , the 'emplacement of all human action presumes locations in spacetime, which materializes each place' .…”

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“…On the one hand tweeting and mapping the journey visualized how very slow pedestrian travel was within the longer framework of a journey from London to Edinburgh, and the ability now to traverse the same distance within hours. 67 I remember driving from Huntingdon via newmarket to Stamford in a matter of minutes during the project, something that the twitter feed took two days to accomplish; and then from Stamford to Edinburgh in a few hours, not months. On the other, the tweeted richness of each day's experience, the interactions of Jonson with his companions, and of our virtual 'walkers' with the project on social media, expanded, and deepened the narrative being told in the manuscript's pages, suggesting the physicality and sociability of a companionable journey.…”

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‘Tweeting Ben Jonson’s Walk: Experiencing the Spatial-Temporality of the “Foot Voyage”’

Groundwater

2016

Cultural and Social History

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In 1618, the playwright Ben Jonson walked from London to Edinburgh. In 2009 details of that walk were recovered in a manuscript account. In 2013, Jonson's 'Foot-Voyage' was tweeted real-time from July to October, and a linked blog hosted a digital map deepened with information from the text. Jonson's 'virtual' journey was to enhance public engagement, his absorption into new communities echoed by exchanges with their twenty-first-century inhabitants. Simultaneously, the tweets suggested the spatial-temporality of Jonson's actions in a manner not discernable in the linear narrative, revealing their kinetic quality. This stimulated a rethinking of the walk's historical temporality, which challenges the historical distance between walker and audience. In 1618, the playwright Ben Jonson walked from London to Edinburgh. In 2013, Jonson's journey was tweeted real-time on its original days and months from 8 July to 5 October @BenJonsonsWalk. Jonson's 'virtual' walk was part of a social media campaign designed primarily to enhance public engagement with a recently discovered manuscript account by an anonymous companion of this 'Foot Voyage' (as it was entitled), from which the tweets were excerpted. 1 This journal detailed for the first time, the route he took, the people he met, and what he saw along the way. The tweeting of this account was linked into an accompanying blog, 'Ben Jonson's Walk' , which fleshed out the world through which Jonson was travelling, and marked his progress north on a map impregnated with information from the text. 2 Whilst the immediate benefits of contact within and outside academia were anticipated, what became apparent was the way in which tweeting Jonson's walk in real-time enabled the research team to experience something of the spatial-temporality of the journey from a perspective not so easily accomplished on the flat manuscript page, and within the linear narrative. 3 This article therefore explores how this virtual re-enactment of Jonson's 'Foot Voyage' stimulated a rethinking of its social, spatial and temporal dimensions. 4 Tweeting excerpts from the manuscript detailed his social encounters, and the sites visited, whilst locating this

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Milieus of Mobility

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The choice of Madrid as the capital of Spain by Philip II in the light of the knowledge of his time: A transport network perspective

The choice of Madrid as the capital of Spain by Philip II in the light of the knowledge of his time: A transport network perspective

The Legal Journey of Paterson’s Roads

‘Tweeting Ben Jonson’s Walk: Experiencing the Spatial-Temporality of the “Foot Voyage”’

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