Mapping Medieval Galician-Portuguese Literature and its Networks

For the mapping part of our project, we used both Google Earth and Google Maps, and also social network graphing.

In the Google Maps section you can find a mao that depict our poets' journeys. It is divided into five different periods that you can toggle accordingly.

If you prefer to highlight the relationships themselves, disregarding the geographical references, you may find our Social Network graph more appealing.

Google Maps

Caption

Key Legend
birth Birthplace
(Click to get the poet's and the place names)
birth-low Birthplace unknown or uncertain
(nationality value used as reference)
floruit Patron and/or venue of literary performance
(Click to get more information about the type of patronage involved)
Path color Joins the poet's place of origin with his following settlements
(Click to identify the poet)
Uncertain journey
Base map Default: Satellite
(Add labels or change the style at the right-upper corner to get additional geographic info)

Google Earth

After the deprecation of the Google Earth API, we do not know about other alternatives to build timelines with 3D mapping applications in the browser. We have decided to include the Google Earth plug-in, anyway. Besides the Google Earth application for Android, these are the browsers that will allow you to visualize the globe until December 2015:

Caption

Key Legend
birth Birthplace
(Click to get the poet's and the place names)
birth-low Birthplace unknown or uncertain
(nationality value used as reference)
floruit Patron and/or venue of literary performance
(Click to get more information about the type of patronage involved)
Path color Joins the poet's place of origin with his following settlements
(Click to identify the poet)
Uncertain journey

Five periods timeline (1170-1480)

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Social Network

Caption

Key Legend
Edge color First and Second Periods
Third Period
Fourth Period
Fifth Period
Edge width Edgebetweenness
Line stroke Origin: Castilian
Origin: Aragonese, Italian or Occitan
Origin: Galician
Origin: Portuguese
Node color Royal court
Lordship
Troubadour
Geographical place
Node and font sizes Degree Centrality

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Click on the nodes and edges to get their key

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