Contents

pp v-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xx

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part One: - Introducing the Network Approach to Medieval History

pp 17-18

Chapter 1 - Network Science Meets Medieval History: Approaches and Methods in an Emergent Field

pp 19-36

Chapter 2 - A Network History of Historical Network Analysis: Using a Citation Network to Explore Historiography

pp 37-56

Chapter 3 - “Big Data” in History? The Use of Social Network Analysis in Medieval Studies—Challenges and Perspective

pp 57-82

Part Two: - Exploring Medieval Sources with SNA

pp 83-84

Chapter 4 - Bede, Network Analysis, and the Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum

pp 85-108

Chapter 5 - Graphing Networks of Latin Hagiography in Early Medieval England

pp 109-134

Chapter 6 - Using Social Networking Analysis to Identify and Understand the Relationships Present in the Liber Eliensis

pp 135-154

Chapter 7 - “Frá Birni er nær allt stórmenni komit á Íslandi”: A Social Network Analysis of Bjǫrn buna’s Descendants in Landnámabók

pp 155-184

Part Three: - Revealing Social Networks of Medieval Ecclesiastics and Nobles

pp 185-186

Chapter 8 - Social Networks in the Gregorian Era: Some Methodological Remarks on the Case of the Investiture Controversy in the Diocese of Cambrai-Arras

pp 187-202

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)

pp 203-228

Chapter 10 - Uncovering Patterns in Dissident Interactions among Late Medieval German Waldensians Using Social Network Analysis

pp 229-254

Chapter 11 - Network Analysis of German Clerical Careers in the Late Middle Ages

pp 255-278

Part Four: - The Temporal Dimension in Medieval Social Networks

pp 279-280

Chapter 12 - Biography and Network Analysis in the Early Middle Ages: Methodological Issues Around the “Networked Life-Course”

pp 281-298

Chapter 13 - Change Over Time in Charter Co-Witnessing Networks: The Case of the Scottish Royal Household, 1124 to 1371

pp 299-324

Part Five: - Testing the Methodology of Medieval Network Studies

pp 325-326

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

pp 327-346

Chapter 15 - Personal Guarantees and Credit Networks in Ypres, Tournai, and Douai in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries

pp 347-368

Index

pp 369-377