| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| 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 |
| 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. Together they have reconstructed the information networks that underpinned a century of Tudor history. The British State Papers 1509‒1603 include a body of 132,747 letters which provide crucial information about the organisation of the communication network centred on the Tudor government. Now, for the first time, we know that this epistolary network is composed of 20,560 separate people, covering a geographical span whose peripheries stretch from Manila to Aleppo, Moscow to Havana, Goa to Terceira. By using methods from the field of network science and through the development of bespoke digital approaches, this book examines the contours of this archive to explore the multitude of perspectives it captures and those it obscures. Proceeding as a set of experiments, it examines how the archive records different types of power, from government hubs, to diplomatic brokers, and female mediators. In so doing it provides new perspectives on the Tudor government's control of its intelligence networks by illuminating its personnel, its geographical coverage, and its concerns |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2023 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023) |
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Power (Social sciences) -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Intelligence service -- England -- History -- 16th century
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English letters -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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English letters
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Intelligence service
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Politics and government
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Power (Social sciences)
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European history.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056883
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Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources
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England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ahnert, Sebastian E., author
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| ISBN |
9780191891595 |
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0191891592 |
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0192602675 |
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9780192602671 |
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