Spatial Data, Spatial Humanities
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The document discusses the concept of 'corpse-paths' in relation to spatial humanities and folklore, particularly those that connect mountain hamlets to parish churches. It references the historical belief surrounding these paths as public rights of way for transporting corpses. The author, Stuart Dunn, links this to spatial data analysis as part of his work at King's College London.
Spatial Data, Spatial Humanities
- 1. Spatial data, Spatial humanities Stuart Dunn Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London [email protected] 22nd March 2018
- 2. Measuring the world Peter Heylyn, 1599 – 1662
- 3. https://stuartdunn.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/sourcing-gis-data
- 4. Corpse-paths Now it is the time of night When the graves all open wide Every one lets for its sprite In the church-way paths to glide Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Sc. 3
- 5. Corpse-paths
- 6. Wm. Self. Weeks. "Public Right of Way Believed to Be Created by the Passage of a Corpse." Folklore (1928): 393-398. Corpse-paths
- 7. “Some of our mountain hamlets are far from the parish church, which has given rise to the “corpse road,” which goes straight a lance to the village centre … But the official who dared to meddle with the corpse road, even though it might not be sued once in twenty years, was in for dire trouble”. -37