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.

Matthew Hammond, FRHistS, is a researcher at the University of Hull, and has previously worked at the University of Glasgow, King’s College London, and the University of Edinburgh. As a creator of the People of Medieval Scotland database, he has been interested in social network analysis since 2013.

Table des matières :

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. « SocialNetworks 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

Informations pratiques :

Social Network Analysis and Medieval History, éd. Matthew Hammond, leeds, ARC Humanities Press, 2025 ; 1 vol., 398 p. (ARC Companions). ISBN : 978-1-80270-128-9. Prix GBP 142,00.

Source : ARC Humanities Press