Agricultural ·Medieval ·Continental ·Europe

Viticulture Frontiers of Medieval Europe

The northern limit of documented winegrowing across the medieval centuries.

1,054 records 800–1500 CE 47.99° N · 4.91° E

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Fig. 1 Interactive distribution of the 1,054 geolocated records on a live carto-positron base · globe / flat projection · decimal degrees (WGS 84).

Abstract

Attested vineyards and monastic wine estates mapped across the medieval period, tracing the fluctuating northern frontier of European viticulture against climatic and ecclesiastical drivers. Each record carries a first-attestation date and an institutional owner where known.

Record

Theme	Agricultural — land use & cultivation
Region	Europe
Temporal range	800–1500 CE
Geographic coverage	Continental
Records	1,054 geolocated entities
Data source	Wikidata + curated CSV
Centroid	47.99° N · 4.91° E
Last revised	Dec 2025

Provenance & sources

Compiled from a curated CSV corpus (n = 1,054) and reconciled against Wikidata entities. Geographic coordinates were verified against published gazetteers prior to publication.

· accessed 2025-12-12

SPARQL query

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?coord ?inception WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?class . ?item wdt:P625 ?coord . OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P571 ?inception . } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }

Recommended citation

Ortelius Editorial Board, ed. “Viticulture Frontiers of Medieval Europe” [dataset]. Ortelius: A Research Atlas of Thematic Cartography, Study AT-012. 2026. doi:10.5281/ortelius.012

DATASET CC BY 4.0 · ENRICHMENT CC0 · CARTOGRAPHY MIT

Data & reproducibility

The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.012.

↓ data.csv ↓ data.geojson