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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
"Preface," by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
"Introduction," by Matthew Hammond
Part One. Introducing the Network Approach to Medieval History
Chapter 1. "Network Science Meets Medieval History: Approaches and Methods in an Emergent Field," by Matthew Hammond
Chapter 2. "A Network History of Historical Network Analysis: Using a Citation Network to Explore Historiography," by Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani and Sébastien de Valeriola
Chapter 3. “'Big Data' in History?: The Use of Social Network Analysis in Medieval Studies—Challenges and Perspectives," by Robert Gramsch-Stehfest
Part Two. Exploring Medieval Sources with SNA
Chapter 4. "Bede, Network Analysis, and the Historica ecclesiastica gentis anglorum," by Máirín MacCarron
Chapter 5. "Graphing Networks of Medieval Latin Hagiography in Early Medieval England," by Carson Koepke
Chapter 6. "Using Social Networking Analysis to Identify and Understand the Relationships Present in the Liber Eliensis," by Ian Styler
Chapter 7. “'Frá Birni er nær allt stórmenni komit á Íslandi': A Social Network Analysis of Bjǫrn buna’s Descendants in Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements)," by Cassidy Croci
Part Three. Revealing Social Networks of Medieval Ecclesiastics and Nobles
Chapter 8. "Social Networks in the Gregorian Era: Some Methodological Remarks on the Case of the Investiture Controversy in the Diocese of Cambrai–Arras," by Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani
Chapter 9. "Marriage Strategies, Clientelism, and Factions in the Social Networks of the Nobility of the Île-de-France Region from Philippe Auguste to Charles VII (1180–1437)," by Laurent Nabias
Chapter 10. "Uncovering Patterns in Dissident Interactions Among Late Medieval German Waldensians Using Social Network Analysis," by Reima Välimäki and David Zbíral
Chapter 11. "Network Analysis of German Clerical Careers in the Late Middle Ages," by Robert Gramsch-Stehfest and Clemens Beck
Part Four. The Temporal Dimension in Medieval Social Networks
Chapter 12. "Biography and Network Analysis in the Early Middle Ages: Methodological Issues Around the 'Networked Life-Course',” by Isabelle Rosé
Chapter 13. "Change Over Time in Charter Co-Witnessing Networks: The Case of the Scottish Royal Household, 1124 to 1371," by Matthew Hammond
Part Five. Testing the Methodology of Medieval Network Studies
Chapter 14. "Monks, Merchants, and Matrices: Quantifying Social Interaction in Reading, 1350–1600," by Joe Chick
Chapter 15. "Personal Guarantees and Credit Networks in Ypres, Tournai, and Douai in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries," by Sébastien de Valeriola
