Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II : A case study

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00140449" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00140449 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2449368" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2449368</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2449368" target="_blank" >10.1080/01615440.2024.2449368</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II : A case study

Original language description

The royal charters and chronicles present a unique historical source for researching power distribution and administration of the medieval kingdom. This paper presents an attempt to progress in the analytical approaches presented by German historians from the 1980s and 1990s to study the governance of the medieval kingdom. Inspired by the use of newly acquainted digital methods in humanities, we compare the analytical metrics implemented on the Přemysl Otakar II (1251-1278) activity itinerary dataset to study the identification of primary centers of his government. The data for the study were collected based on the historical research of available sources and transformed and cleaned into a data table of king's activities and a list of geocoded localities. To study the king's movement in spacetime, we also needed to reconstruct the travel routes and the corresponding travel time estimation. In the next step, we selected and implemented twelve metrics ranging from fundamental statistical analysis, and geostatistics, to network analysis to evaluate the dataset and identify the primary centers of the reign of the king. Further, we provided the comparison of all used metrics in the sense of visual analysis, methodological point of view, and from the perspective of their historical interpretation. In addition to providing a methodological extension to the research of historical itineraries, the outcomes of the analyses brought a new contribution to the historical research of the administration of the medieval kingdom.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-09231S" target="_blank" >GA18-09231S: ROYAL POWER IN ACTION: PŘEMYSL OTTOKAR II. OF BOHEMIA AND HIS GOVERNMENT (1247-1278)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

ISSN

0161-5440

e-ISSN

1940-1906

Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

81-98

UT code for WoS article

001468032900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85219681343