Lacunae
The gaps in the record
A lacuna is a gap in a manuscript: a missing passage, a blank space, a glaring omission. These are the gaps in Period Piece’s record of history, the runs of years no title in the archive is set in. A year is written when a title is filed there, covered when a title depicts it but is filed elsewhere, and blank when nothing reaches it. Each lacuna is measured against how closely titles usually sit in the years around it, so six blank years mean little in the Classical world and a great deal in the twentieth century. Open one to see what was happening, and who held the world, while the archive was silent.
- Written a title is filed in the year (darker for more titles, one to five or more)
- Covered a title depicts the year but is filed elsewhere
- Blank nothing reaches the year
Lacunae in space
How much of each era the archive has written on each continent: the share of its years with a title set there. A title set on several continents counts on each. Choose a continent to search it in every era, or a cell for its lacunae in that era alone.
Every lacuna
Addressed Recently
The years most recently given their first title, entered by the day they were filed, with the lacuna each one broke.