Social network analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of business, politics, public health, and now history. In this book, the first collection of network analysis case studies dedicated to the study of the European Middle Ages, fourteen scholars present their ground-breaking research on subjects as varied as saints’ lives, royal households, landholding society, ecclesiastical structures, town life, and financial dealings. Spanning the chronological breadth of the medieval era, this collection is international in both its subject matter and its scholarship. With leading researchers from across Europe, this book announces the arrival of an exciting new subdiscipline in Medieval Studies.
- COVER
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Introducing the Network Approach to Medieval History
- 1. Network Science Meets Medieval History — Hammond
- 2. A Network History of Historical Network Analysis — Ruffini-Ronzani & de Valeriola
- 3. “Big Data” in History? — Gramsch-Stehfest
- Part Two: Exploring Medieval Sources with SNA
- 4. Bede, Network Analysis, and the Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum — MacCarron
- 5. Graphing Networks of Latin Hagiography in Early Medieval England — Koepke
- 6. Using Social Networking Analysis to Identify and Understand the Relationships in the Liber Eliensis — Styler
- 7. “Frá Birni er nær allt stórmenni komit á Íslandi” — Croci
- Part Three: Revealing Social Networks of Medieval Ecclesiastics and Nobles
- 8. Social Networks in the Gregorian Era — Ruffini-Ronzani
- 9. Marriage Strategies, Clientelism, and Factions in the Nobility of the Île-de-France Region — Nabias
- 10. Interactions among Late Medieval German Waldensians — Välimäki & Zbíral
- 11. Network Analysis of German Clerical Careers in the Late Middle Ages — Gramsch-Stehfest & Beck
- Part Four: The Temporal Dimension in Medieval Social Networks
- 12. Biography and Network Analysis in the Early Middle Ages — Rosé
- 13. Change Over Time in Charter Co-Witnessing Networks — Hammond
- Part Five: Testing the Methodology of Medieval Network Studies
- 14. Monks, Merchants, and Matrices — Chick
- 15. Personal Guarantees and Credit Networks in Ypres, Tournai, and Douai — de Valeriola
- Index
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