Maximillian Jesiolowski
Doctoral researcher at the IHIST.
Maximillian works on the project ‘BACK TO GO – RETHINKING THE NATURE OF HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH ENVIRONMENT IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LUXEMBOURG FROM A LONGUE DURÉE PERSPECTIVE USING DIGITAL AND INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION TECHNIQUES AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS‘ under the supervision of Martin Uhrmacher
The Carte de cabinet des Pays-Bas autrichiens levée á l’initiative du comte de Ferraris (1771-1777) was the first major cartographic survey of the Austrian-Netherlands, and its 275 maps are important sources for understanding the development of land usage in modern-day Luxembourg and Belgium due to its pre-industrial setting. This project goes back in time to create a spatial analysis of medieval land and environment use in Luxembourg with a longue durée perspective using the Ferraris maps.
Analysing the nature of human interactions with the environment in the past will allow for a better understanding of current and future relationships with the natural world and will act as a basis for further interdisciplinary research and for further cooperation between traditional and modern methods of investigating history.
With a combination of physical archaeological data, digital mapping, and visualisation tools, in addition to Geographical Information Systems, changes in the landscape of medieval Luxembourg regarding the history of environment, settlement patterns, industrialisation and deindustrialisation, land use and infrastructure can be described and analysed from a unique perspective.