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Tudor networks of power / Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahnert, Ruth, author.
- Ahnert, Sebastian E., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences)--England--History--16th century.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Intelligence service--England--History--16th century.
- Intelligence service.
- English letters--16th century--History and criticism.
- English letters.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Sources.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'Tudor Networks of Power' is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. They reconstruct and computationally analyse networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and political influence over a century of Tudor history, 1509-1603, based on the British State Papers.
- 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
- PART II: STRUCTURE
- 3: 'Betweenness'
- Who Has High Betweenness?
- Institutionalising Weak Ties
- Tommaso Spinelli
- 4: Network Profiles
- The Changing Diplomatic Profile
- Pietro Bizzarri's 'Knowledge Transactions'
- Against Taxonomies
- Interception and the Case of Edward Courtenay
- Predicting Interception
- 5: Women: Petitioning, Power, and Mediation
- Women's Words
- 'Triads'
- Petitioning
- Power
- Modelling Mediation
- PART III: MOVEMENT
- 6: Information Flow
- Words in Time
- Topics and Their Transmission
- The King's Great Matter
- The Netherlands 1578-9
- Modularity
- 7: Itineraries
- 'Fragments of Trajectories'
- 'Moving, Intersecting Writings'
- 'Alterations of Spaces'
- A 'Manifold Story': Perkins and Cocks
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ahnert, Ruth Tudor Networks of Power
- ISBN:
- 0-19-189159-2
- 0-19-260267-5
- 0-19-260268-3
- OCLC:
- 1394910048
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