Prado, S.D., Dahmen, S.R., Bazzan, A.L.C. et al. (2 more authors) (2020) Gendered networks and communicability in medieval historical narratives. Advances in Complex Systems, 23 (03). 2050006. ISSN 0219-5259
Abstract
Since 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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 World Scientific Publishing. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Advances in Complex Systems. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Gendered networks; communicability; node relevance; medieval history |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number The Leverhulme Trust RPG-2018-014 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2020 08:42 |
Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2022 12:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1142/S021952592050006X |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163924 |