New Book!

Social Network Analysis and Medieval History, ed. Matthew Hammond

Arc Humanities Press, 2025

Table of Contents

Preface – Johannes Preiser-Kapeller     

Introduction – Matthew Hammond

I. Introducing the Network Approach to Medieval History

1. Network Science meets Medieval History: Approaches and Methods in an Emergent Field – Matthew Hammond

2. A Network History of Historical Network Analysis: Using a Citation Network to Explore Historiography – Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani and Sébastien de Valeriola

3. Big Data in History?: The Use of Social Network Analysis in Medieval Studies – Challenges and Perspectives – Robert Gramsch-Stehfest

II. Exploring Medieval Sources with SNA

4. Bede, Network Analysis, and the Historica ecclesiastica gentis anglorumMáirín MacCarron

5. Graphing Networks of Medieval Latin Hagiography in Early Medieval England – Carson Koepke

6. Using Social Networking Analysis to Identify and Understand the Relationships in the Liber EliensisIan Styler

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) – Cassidy Croci

III. Revealing Social Networks of Medieval Ecclesiastics and Nobles

8. Networks in the Gregorian Era: Re-investigating the Case of the Investiture Struggle in Cambrai – Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani

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) – Laurent Nabias

10. Uncovering Patterns in Dissident Interactions among Late Medieval German Waldensians Using Social Network Analysis – Reima Välimäki and David Zbíral

11. Network Analysis of German Clerical Careers in the Late Middle Ages –Robert Gramsch-Stehfest and Clemens Beck

IV. The Temporal Dimension in Medieval Social Networks

12. Biography and Network Analysis in the Early Middle Ages: Methodological Issues around the “Networked Life-Course” – Isabelle Rosé

13. Dynamic Charter Witness Networks: the Scottish Royal Household, 1124 to 1371 – Matthew Hammond

V. Testing the Methodology of Medieval Network Studies

14. Monks, Merchants, and Matrices: Quantifying Social Interaction in Reading, 1350-1600 – Joe Chick

15. Personal Guarantees and Credit Networks in Ypres, Tournai, and Douai in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries – Sébastien de Valeriola