Imagining Space and Drawing Boundaries: Geography, History, and Cartography of the Dominican Order, 13th- 14th Centuries
Scientific-Disciplinary Group
11/HIST-01 - Medieval History
Description
The research focuses on the Notitia provinciarum et domorum ordinis praedicatorum, compiled in the early fourteenth century by Bernard Gui (c. 1261–1331), a Dominican friar and prolific writer. The Notitia lists male and female convents, including foundation dates and other details, offering a valuable basis to analyse the typology, spread, chronology, and density of the Order’s expansion—approached here through this specific early fourteenth-century snapshot. The data will be organized into a structured database and mapped using GIS to produce an interactive digital cartography showing spatial and temporal patterns at multiple scales. The Notitia will also be studied as a textual construct, in comparison with Gui’s other works and with contemporary developments in spatial and temporal representation.
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Università di Pavia
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