Tudor networks of power /

"Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a collaboration between an early modern literary historian and a physicist specialising in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed the information networks that underpinned a century of Tudor history. The British State Papers 1509‒1603 inclu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ahnert, Ruth (Author), Ahnert, Sebastian E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Tudor Networks of Power
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations and References
  • Foreword
  • PART I: FOUNDATIONS
  • 1: Introduction: Tudor Letters in the Digital Age
  • Keepers and Finding Aids
  • Data Cleaning as Curation
  • Transformation
  • Conclusion
  • 2: The Shape of the Archive
  • Hubs and Peripheries
  • Weighted and Directed Networks
  • Outposts and Out-Strength
  • The Principal Secretary and the Monad
  • Conclusion
  • PART II: STRUCTURE
  • 3: 'Betweenness'
  • Who Has High Betweenness?
  • Institutionalising Weak Ties
  • Tommaso Spinelli
  • Conclusion
  • 4: Network Profiles
  • The Changing Diplomatic Profile
  • Pietro Bizzarri's 'Knowledge Transactions'
  • Against Taxonomies
  • Interception and the Case of Edward Courtenay
  • Predicting Interception
  • Conclusion
  • 5: Women: Petitioning, Power, and Mediation
  • Women's Words
  • 'Triads'
  • Petitioning
  • Power
  • Modelling Mediation
  • Conclusion
  • PART III: MOVEMENT
  • 6: Information Flow
  • Words in Time
  • Topics and Their Transmission
  • The King's Great Matter
  • The Netherlands 1578-9
  • Modularity
  • Conclusion
  • 7: Itineraries
  • 'Fragments of Trajectories'
  • 'Moving, Intersecting Writings'
  • 'Alterations of Spaces'
  • A 'Manifold Story': Perkins and Cocks
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index.