IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 516: Approaching Medieval Networks, I: Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Leverhulme Trust Project 'Women, Conflict & Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives' |
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| Organisers: | Julia Hillner, Department of History, University of Sheffield Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ulriika Vihervalli, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
| Paper 516-a | Widows as Borderline Figures, or, Degendering Widows' Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 516-b | Wilfrid of York's Gendered Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Paper 516-c | Cogadh Gaedhael re Gallaibh and Network Science (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic |
| Abstract | This is the first of two sessions presenting new approaches to studying networks in early medieval sources in connection with the Leverhulme Trust funded project, 'Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives'. This session showcases interdisciplinary methodologies through combining sociological theory, close empirical reading of historical texts and mathematical network science: Paper-a (Patzelt) examines widows' positions in late antique social networks; Paper-b (MacCarron) compares the presentation of Wilfrid of York's networks in Stephen's Vita Wilfridi and Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; Paper-c (Kenna) analyses Irish and Viking networks in the Cogadh Gaedhael re Gallaibh ('War of the Irish Against the Foreigner'). |