EARLY MODERN TRAVELLERS IN THE AEGEAN: ROUTES AND NETWORKS

Loy, Michael

Abstract

This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualised, and discussion focuses on how navigation varied both between centuries and according to the traveller's place of origin. It is suggested that travellers were dependent on other sorts of networks, and that routes travelled were shaped greatly by the economics and politics of the day. It is also proposed that methodologies used in this paper offer great potential for engaging broad-scale sets of archive data.

Citation

Loy, M. (2019). EARLY MODERN TRAVELLERS IN THE AEGEAN: ROUTES AND NETWORKS. Annual of the British School at Athens, 114, 369-398. https://doi.org/10.1017/s006824541900011x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 20, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-11
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2025
• Journal: The Annual of the British School at Athens
• Print ISSN: 0068-2454
• Electronic ISSN: 2045-2403
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 114
• Pages: 369-398
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s006824541900011x
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3332603