Gendered networks and communicability in medieval historical narratives

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dc.contributor.authorPrado, S. D.en
dc.contributor.authorDahmen, S. R.en
dc.contributor.authorBazzan, A. L. C.en
dc.contributor.authorMacCarron, Máirínen
dc.contributor.authorHillner, J.en
dc.contributor.funderLeverhulme Trusten
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-18T11:06:28Z
dc.date.available2023-10-18T11:06:28Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractSince the 1970s, scholars have begun to pay attention to the presentation of women in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the main source for the early history of Britain (from the first century BC to the eighth century AD). Vastly different conclusions have been drawn, ranging from positivist approaches which saw the period as a golden age for women to rather more negative assessments, which argue that Bede suppressed the role of women. By analyzing the concept of communicability and relevance of certain nodes in complex networks, we show how Bede’s Ecclesiastical History affords women complex and nuanced social roles. In particular, we can show the independent importance of certain abbesses, which is a significant result and challenges much of the existing scholarship on Bede’s attitude to female power.en
dc.description.sponsorshipLeverhulme Trust (Grant RPG 2018–014)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid2050006en
dc.identifier.citationPrado, S. D., Dahmen, S. R., Bazzan, A. L. C., MacCarron, M. and Hillner, J. (2020) 'Gendered networks and communicability in medieval historical narratives', Advances in Complex Systems, 23(3), 2050006. doi: 10.1142/S021952592050006Xen
dc.identifier.doi10.1142/s021952592050006xen
dc.identifier.eissn1793-6802en
dc.identifier.issn0219-5259en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleAdvances in Complex Systemsen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15131
dc.identifier.volume23en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co.en
dc.rights© 2020, World Scientific Publishing Co. Preprint of an article published in Advances in Complex Systems, 23(3), 2050006, doi: 10.1142/S021952592050006Xen
dc.subjectGendered networksen
dc.subjectCommunicabilityen
dc.subjectNode relevanceen
dc.subjectMedieval historyen
dc.subject~Digital Arts and Humanities - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleGendered networks and communicability in medieval historical narrativesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
oaire.citation.issue03en
oaire.citation.volume23en
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