This project produces a historical GIS atlas of medieval and early modern local administrative and judicial boundaries in the Low Countries, covering the area from northern France to Groningen and from Luxembourg to Holland.
The GIS maps are also linked to available house and hearth counts and other socio-economic historical statistics (see the project ‘(Re)counting the Uncounted’).
Publications using the HALC dataset (selection):
- Stapel, R.J., ‘Historical Atlas of the Low Countries. A GIS Dataset of Locality-Level Boundaries (1350–1800)’, in: Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 8.1 (2023) 1-33 <https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10033>.
- Stapel, R.J., ‘Conflating Historical Population Statistics Using a Historical GIS with a Flexible Semantic Model for Premodern Administrative Units in the Low Countries: The (Re)counting the Uncounted and Historical Atlas of the Low Countries Projects’, in: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities ’23), November 13, 2023, Hamburg, Germany (New York, NY, USA: ACM 2023) 4 pages. https://doi.org/10. 1145/3615887.3627756.
- Oostindiër, A.E., and R.J. Stapel, ‘Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth-Century Brabant’, in: M.J.M. Damen and K. Overlaet eds., Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam: AUP 2022) 141–178 <https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/52143/9789048551804.pdf?sequence=1#page=142> [accessed 1 January 2022].
- Stapel, R.J., ‘Reconstructie van de Grote Waard, 1421’, Holland: historisch tijdschrift 53 (2021) 69–73.
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Stapel, R.J., ‘Een rekenoefening in drie akten. Bevolking, priesters en hun herkomst in het bisdom Utrecht (begin zestiende eeuw)’, in: H. van Engen, H. Nijdam and K. van Vliet eds., Macht, bezit en ruimte. Opstellen over de noordelijke Nederlanden in de middeleeuwen (Hilversum: Verloren 2021) 471–487.
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Zuijderduijn, C.J., R.J. Stapel and J.M.W.G. Lucassen, ‘Coin Production in the Low Countries. Fourteenth Century to the Present’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 15 (2018) 69–88.
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Stapel, R.J., ‘Kaart van het Graafschap Holland (1795)’, in: F.W. Lantink and J.J. Temminck eds., Heerlijkheden in Holland. Publicaties van de Stichting Vrienden van het Noord-Hollands Archief 3 (Hilversum: Verloren 2017) 111-116 [met kaart].
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Stapel, R.J., ‘Holland rond 1500: een geografische verkenning van de Enqueste (1494) en Informacie (1514)’, Holland: historisch tijdschrift 49 (2017) 177–184.
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Bos-Rops, J.A.M.Y., H.G. Oost and R.J. Stapel, ‘Archievenoverzicht van heerlijkheden en legenda bij de kaart van het Graafschap Holland (1795)’, in: F.W. Lantink and J.J. Temminck eds., Heerlijkheden in Holland. Publicaties van de Stichting Vrienden van het Noord-Hollands Archief 3 (Hilversum: Verloren 2017) 117–152.
For publications specifically linked to the replication study ‘(Re)counting the Uncounted’, see there or at the data repository.
Presentations (selection, not updated):
- University of Groningen, Centre for Digital Humanities [15 June 2017]
- DH Benelux 2018 (Amsterdam, NL) [8 June 2018] Link to poster.
- Spatial Humanities 2018 (Lancaster, UK) [20-21 September 2018]
Currently available datasets:
- Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350-1800) (main project page)
- Duchy of Brabant GIS Collection (derivative product)
- Reconstruction of the Grote Waard prior to the Saint Elisabeth’s Flood in 1421 (derivative product). See also the blog post here.
- Mint authorities (ca. 12th century – present): this dataset includes the (rough) GIS boundaries of the counties, duchies, prince-bishoprics, nations, and other authorities that made up the Low Countries up to the present-day Benelux. The dataset was created for use in the Coin Production in the Low Countries project. See also the GIS dataset of mint houses.
A published subset of the GIS files containing the local administrative-judicial boundaries is available for public use (CC-BY-SA) here.
