Tudor Networks of Power

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Prof Ruth Ahnert (Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities, Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities, School of English & Drama, Queen Mary University of London) Dr Sebastian E. Ahnert (University Lecturer, University Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

Tudor Networks of Power

Prof Ruth Ahnert (Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities, Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities, School of English & Drama, Queen Mary University of London), Dr Sebastian E. Ahnert (University Lecturer, University Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

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Oxford University Press
04 January 2024

Interdisciplinary studies; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and political influence across a century of Tudor history (1509-1603), based on the British State Papers.

The 130,000 letters that survive in the State Papers from the Tudor period provide crucial information about the textual organization of the social network centred on the Tudor government. Whole libraries have been written using this archive, but until now nobody has had access to the macroscopic tools that allow us to ask questions such as: What are the reasons for the structure of the Tudor government's intelligence network? What was it geographical reach and coverage? Can we use network data to show patterns of surveillance? What role did women play in these government networks? And what biases are there in the data? The authors employ methods from the field of network science, translating key concepts and approaches into a language accessible to literary scholars and historians, and illustrating them with examples drawn from this fantastically rich archive. Each chapter is the product of a set of thematically organized 'experiments', which show how particular methods can help to ask and answer research questions specific to the State Papers archive, but also have applications for other large bodies of humanities data. The fundamental aim of this book, therefore, is not merely to provide an innovative perspective on Tudor politics; it also aspires to introduce an entirely new audience to the methods and applications of network science, and to suggest the suitability of these methods for a range of humanistic inquiry.

By: Prof Ruth Ahnert (Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities School of English & Drama Queen Mary University of London), Dr Sebastian E. Ahnert (University Lecturer, University Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 746g
ISBN: 9780198858973
ISBN 10: 0198858973
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ruth Ahnert is Professor of Literary History and Digital Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on Tudor culture, book history, and digital humanities. She is author of The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (2013), and co-author of The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (2020). Recent collaborative work has taken place through AHRC-funded projects 'Living with Machines' and 'Networking the Archives: Assembling and analysing a meta-archive of correspondence, 1509-1714'. With Elaine Treharne she is series editor of Stanford University Press's Text Technologies series. Sebastian Ahnert is a University Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London. He gained his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge and then undertook postdoctoral research at the Institut Curie in Paris, before returning to Cambridge for a Leverhulme Fellowship, followed by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and a Gatsby Career Development Fellowship. His research interests lie in the intersection of theoretical physics, biology, mathematics, and computer science, with a particular interest in the interdisciplinary application of network analysis. He has published over sixty articles across a wide range of academic journals in the sciences and humanities. The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities, which he co-authored with Ruth Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott B. Weingart was published in 2020.

Winner of Shortlisted, SHARP Book History Book Prize.
Winner of Winner, 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History Shortlisted, SHARP Book History Book Priz.

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