Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Applying Digital Tools in the Analysis of Political and Social Transformations in the Historical Region of Macedonia (12th–14th Centuries)
Mihailo Popović|Veronika Polloczek
The project »Digitising Patterns of Power«(hereafter DPP) is funded within the programme »Digital Humanities: Langzeitprojekte zum kulturellen Erbe«of Austrian Academy Sciences for a period four years (2015-2018). It hosted at Institute Medieval Research (IMAFO) same and unites as cluster various experts from fields medieval history, Byzantine studies, historical geography, archaeology, cartography, geographical information science (GISc) software engineering. present article elaborates on authors’ case study, »The Historical Region Macedonia (12th-14th centuries): Transformation Landscape«within DPP. focuses, one hand, macro-level political concepts in Southern Balkan Peninsula 12th to 14th centuries (especially expansion Serbian kingdom South under King Stefan Uros II Milutin until death Tsar IV Dusan, i.e. 1282 1355), and, other micro-level border zones cross-border societies between Empire period. initial point research formed by written sources, charters main corpus, well selected sources kingdom. are analysed viewpoint aforesaid questions strongly based methods derived Geography those long-term Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) Sciences). Special attention given analysis formulations with regard area research; acquisition new territories their administrative incorporation macro-level; localisation conquered settlements related settlement typologies, change local elites (prosopography) interaction nomads (i.e. Vlachs) micro-level. Finally, digital tools storing data, mapping visualisation, which have been developed DPP, presented.
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