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The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open source databases, and interactive resources utilizing a rich variety of source materials—place names, early modern cadastral maps, medieval literature and art, Viking Age and medieval runic inscriptions—provides opportunities to re-think traditional lines of research on spatiality and worldviews, encourage innovation in methodology, and engage critically with digital outcomes. In this book, Nordic scholars of philology, onomastics, history, geography, literary studies, and digital humanities examine multiple aspects of ten large- and small-scale digital spatial infrastructures from the early stages of development to the practical applications of digital tools for studying spatial thinking and knowledge in pre-modern sources and societies.

Spatial history. --- Spatial data infrastructures. --- Space perception. --- Space perception --- History --- SDIs (Geographic information systems) --- Geographic information systems --- Spatial perception --- Perception --- Spatial behavior --- Figure-ground perception --- Geographical perception --- Methodology --- Geographic information systems (GIS). --- Linked Open Data. --- Medieval Studies. --- place names. --- spatial humanities. --- spatial infrastructure. --- spatiality.

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An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.

Landscape assessment. --- Human geography. --- Cognition and culture. --- Heathlands --- Leisure --- Environmental aspects. --- Geographical perception --- Landscape assessment --- Social aspects --- Devon (England) --- Heathlands - England - Devon - Social aspects --- Landscape assessment - England - Devon --- Human geography --- Landscapes - England - West Country --- Landscape protection - England - West Country --- Outdoor recreation - England - West Country --- East Devon (England) - Social aspects --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Heath lands --- Heaths (Shrublands) --- Moors and heaths --- Shrublands --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Devonshire (England) --- County of Devon (England) --- Landscapes --- Outdoor recreation --- East Devon (England)