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  • Tudor Networks of Power

    by Prof Ruth Ahnert, Dr Sebastian E. Ahnert ...
    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 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data

    Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project

    by Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin, Mia Ridge, Giorgia Tolfo ...
    Series series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
    Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain. In contrast to many previous digital humanities projects which have sought to create ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Network Turn

    Changing Perspectives in the Humanities

    by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Scott B. Weingart ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer science and related scientific fields. But arts and humanities scholars are increasingly using the same kinds of visual and ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

    by Ruth Ahnert ...
    Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. In the previous centuries we find only isolated examples of prison writings, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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