ORBIS: Mapping the Roman world

[transemacabre]

Oh cool! Stanford has come up with a new tool to help us comprehend how the Roman Empire was held together, geographically: ORBIS. It's also useful for more medievalish stuff, if you play around with it.

For example, the fastest trip between Durnonovaria [Dorchester, England] to Jerusalem, in May, would take 45 days.

If we try the route taken by Pierre de Courtenay in April 1217, military march overland from Rome to Constantinople (although he didn't make it), it takes 36.5 days.

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[minutia-r.livejournal.com]

Oooh.