2025
Session 1508: Network Analysis for Medievalists, I: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Physicians, Felons and Bureaucrats in Medieval Households
Moderator: Matthew Hammond, University of Hull
a) Serra Ağırman Yılmaz, İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi, ‘A Study of the Relationship between Master and Apprentice of Medieval Islamic Physicians with Social Network Analysis’
b) Joe Chick, University of Leicester, ‘The Goods, the Bad, and the In-Degree: Networks in Felons’ Household Inventories’
c) Katharina Pruente, University of Stirling, ‘Ita est Gavinus Hamiltoun notarius publicus: The Campbells of Argyll and their Notaries Public in the 16th century’
Session 1509: Network Analysis for Medievalists, II: New Approaches to Central Medieval Sources
Moderator: David Zbíral, Centrum pro digitální výzkum náboženství / Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova univerzita, Brno
a) Clemens Beck, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, ‘Network Analysis of High Medieval Sources Supported by Large Language Models (LLMs)’
b) Matthew Hammond, University of Hull, ‘Exploring Network Approaches for Comparative Analysis of Medieval Europeanization’
2024
Session 1508: Network Analysis for Medievalists, I: Networks in the Holy Roman Empire
Moderator: Matthew Hammond, University of Hull (formerly Kings College London)
a) Adele Geja, Universitá degli Studi di Torino, ‘Networks of People, Networks of Places: Using SNA to Do a Spatial Analysis of the Medieval City – the case of Asti between the 10th and 14th centuries’
b) Hippolyte Souvay, ‘The Artisans of Power: A Social Network Analysis in Late Medieval Strasbourg’, Université de Fribourg
c) Richard Hadden, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, and Marcella Tambuscio, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Universität Graz.
Session 1608: Network Analysis for Medievalists, II: Religious Networks in Asia, Africa, and Europe
Moderator: David Zbíral, Centrum pro digitální výzkum náboženství / Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova univerzita, Brno
a) Christie Pavey, Royal Holloway, University of London, ‘SNA in L(ate) R(oman) A(frica): Using an Episcopal Network to Understand Church-State Relations’
b) Lari Ahokas, ‘Texts for a Crisis: Networks of Polemical Texts in the Investiture Contest’, University of Helsinki
c) Song Chen, Bucknell University, ‘Connecting by Gods: A Network Analysis of Subregional Religious Communities in China’s Lower Yangzi, 1150-1350’
Session 1708: Network Analysis for Medievalists, III: Textual Transmission Networks
Moderator: Máirín MacCarron, University College Cork
a) Svetlana Yatsyk, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, ‘Breviloquium de virtutibus: Tracing the Text’s Transmission through Network Analysis’
b) Matthew Hammond, University of Hull (formerly King’s College London), ‘Where are we now? Social network approaches to medieval history in 2024’
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Session 116: Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, I: Network Analysis of Medieval Charters
Matthew Hammond, ‘Dynamic Networks of Scottish Charter Witnesses, continued’
Hervin Fernández-Aceves, ‘Reading, Connecting, and Visualising the Condaghes: The Networks of Medieval Sardinia’
Joe Chick, ‘Dealing with Data Loss: Network Analysis with Incomplete Datasets’
Session 216: Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, II. Episcopal Networks
Catherine Healy, ‘The Networks of Bishop Gilbert Foliot of London and Master David of London’
Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, ‘Networks in the Gregorian Era: The ‘Register’ of Bishop Lambert of Arras’
Benjamin Torn, ‘Clerics as Messengers and Envoys in the Networks of Frederick II’
Session 316: Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, III. Networked Texts
David Zbíral, ‘Historian versus Machine: Testing the Validity of Automated Network Extraction from Inquisitorial Records’
Alaric Hall, ‘Establishing Scribal Networks from Stemmas: The Case of Njáls Saga‘
Zdenko Vozár, ‘Networks of Alchemical Symbols: Selected Early Prints from Bohemia’
Durham, 2 May 2019
An Introduction to Historical Social Network Analysis, Department of History, University of Durham, 2 May 2019.
Leeds, 29 March 2019
An Introduction to Historical Social Network Analysis, Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, 29 March 2019.
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