Maps under the Loire river - GitLab Pages
During the 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography [ICHC 2024], we presented a scientific poster about the Gorges de la Loire representation in several types of historical maps, with different scales.
On this GitLab, we aims to present materials, ressources and more maps. That inclued :
This GitLab is not set in stone and all these ressources will be completed.
A scientific poster
This poster results of a collaboration between between 2 members of the EVS lab (UMR 5600 CNRS) from the University of Saint-Étienne: a GIS engineer (Dr Pierre-Olivier Mazagol) who has made a tool to see ancient landscapes of the Gorge de la Loire, a little segment of the Loire River near Saint-Étienne agglomeration, and a geographer (Dr Sarah Réault) specialised in geo-history.
Those maps extracts are organised about 2 orientations:
- Mapping development between 15th century and current methods for cartography.
- Trying to understand how possibilities to cross and follow the river (sailing or using banks). All kinds of movements facilitated remotely by reading a map, in peacetime or wartime. That is the reason we choose as title "The Gorges de la Loire as a strategic mapped area" for this poster.
Its structure focuses of three subjects.
On either side of a current map, extracts are dated from 15th to 19th century:
- On left side: The question of the representation of river as an obstacle, possibly political limit.
- On right side: crossing and sailing.
Below, the poster give priority to mapping in war or cold war context: maps are from begin of 19th century to middle of 20th century.
This overview ends with new methods of representation, between, map and landscape.
You can use the q-code to visit mores resources.
Contact : pierre.olivier.mazagol[a]univ-st-etienne.fr and sarah.reault[a]univ-st-etienne.fr
Carte du Lionnois, Forest, Beaujolois et Masconnois (Jean Le Clerc excudit, 1619)