Entangled Worlds: Networks of the Past

JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH NETWORKS IN THE SPREAD OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY

JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH NETWORKS IN THE SPREAD OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY: A CASE OF THE MARCIONATE AND LUKAN CHRISTIANITY The influence of Jewish heritage on the spread of early Christianity represents a traditional research issue in the history of Christianity. However, research projects up to now have been mainly aimed at detailed analyses of fragmentary written sources and/or general reconstructions...
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Networking the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire

Christianization of the Roman Empire: Diffusion on a Settlement Network At the beginning of the fourth century, Christians already constituted a substantial proportion of population of the Roman Empire, especially in eastern provinces, but also in Italy, north Africa or Spain. With its origins in 1st century Palestine, Christianity reached some locations earlier than others and blossomed in some...
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The Diffusion of the Cult of Isis

(ISIS-CULTS) DIRECTIONS FOR THE GODS KEY FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EARLY SPREAD OF THE ISIAC CULTS Early in the Ptolemaic era, the cult of Isis and Sarapis spread successfully to the ports in the ancient Mediterranean (Bricault 2005). However, the reasons standing behind this process are only partially understood. The main hypotheses in the academic discussion see the key factor influencing the...
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Networks of the Roman Cult of Mithras

(MITHORIG) THE ORIGINS OF THE ROMAN CULT OF MITHRAS The origins of the Roman cult of Mithras remain an unsolved puzzle. Since the Cumontian scenario (Cumont 1913), which holds that the Mithraic cult spread from ancient Persia to the Roman Empire, was abandoned due to increasing criticism, various alternative hypotheses have been presented. Some of these still assume that the formation of the cult...
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Networks of medieval Sicily: documents from the Norman period

The Uncharted Networks of a 'Chartered' Territory: Diplomatic Evidence and Relational Sociology for the Norman Kingdom of Sicily The paper discusses the research possibilities created both by document digitalisation and relational sociology for the study and usage of Italo-Norman charters. Following the footsteps of scholars who have already edited, organised, and classified the documentary...
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Network dynamics of a Holy War: the Fourth Crusade

The Fourth Crusade, initiated by Pope Innocent III for the purpose of the conquest of Egypt and the “liberation” of the Holy Land, ended in 1204 in the capture and looting of Constantinople, capital of the Christian Roman Empire of the East (commonly called the Byzantine one). The most important chronicler of the crusade, Geoffrey of Villehardouin (ca. 1160-1213), vividly describes the process of...
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The Emperor in the Graph Database

Graphdatenbanken - neue Perspektiven für die semantische Erschließung Graphdatenbanken spielen eine herausragende Rolle bei Modellierung und Speicherung von erschließendem Wissen. Die Informationen werden hierbei nicht in Tabellen sondern in sogenannten Graphen abgelegt. Ein Graph besteht aus Knoten (engl. nodes) und Kanten (engl. edges). Nodes repräsentieren Personen, Sachen, Ereignisse etc. und...
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Networks of Printing and Power in China and Europe

Printing and Power: the networks of Chen Qi (1186-1256) and Robert Estienne (1503-1559) in comparative perspective This paper aims to demonstrate the pertinence of micro-historical sources to comparative  frameworks of elite activity, communication, and the development of political institutions. While comparative history has traditionally produced large-scale comparisons of macro-level...
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Opposition and Alliances: Austria, 1451 AD

Opposition und Bündnisbildung: Mailberger Bund 1451 Der gegen Kaiser Friedrich III. (1440-1493) gerichtete „Mailberger Bund“ (1451) der Stände des Herzogtums ob und unter Enns gilt als einer der machtvollsten Ständebewegungen der österreichischen Geschichte. Seine „materielle“ Manifestation in einer Urkunde mit über 250 Siegeln zeugt von einem kurzzeitig sehr dichten und überaus erfolgreichen...
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The Complex Mediterranean

Presentation on video: "The Complex Mediterranean. Networks, diffusion and social dynamics in the pre-modern period" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IiMfnagwno&index=2&list=PLxGU2gDyMnMkjcwWCpwr7-oPLn9rDtgOE   Keynote lecture by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, given at the Workshop: “Bridging the Gaps: (Ancient) History from the Perspective of Mathematical and Computational Modelling...
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Networks of War: Tyrol vs. the rest of the world

Netzwerke des Krieges: König Sigismund, Herzog Friedrich IV. von Österreich und ihre Verbündeten im Reichskrieg von 1415 Am Konzil von Konstanz (1414–1418) entzündete sich ein schon länger schwelender Konflikt zwischen König Sigismund dem Luxemburger und dem Habsburger Herzog Friedrich IV. von Tirol um die Vorherrschaft im südwestdeutschen Raum. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit gelang es dem König, mehrere...
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Village networks in 13th century Byzantium

Village communities in 13th century Byzantium: networks and microstructures The collapse of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 lead to new political entities and complicated entanglements in the Eastern Mediterranean. The broader picture of the historical developments inside the Greek states (Nicaea, Epirus and Trapezunt) have been analysed in various studies; modern scholars have also narrated in...
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Networks of fortresses in the medieval Himalaya

Medieval Political and Military Space in Garhwal (Central) Himalaya, India: Studying Changing Network Patterns of Defence Strategy in the Himalayan Landscape The Garhwal (Central) Himalaya, India, most popularly known as the Abode of Gods, has a rich history, culture and archaeology. There are significant and prominent markers and signatures of History embedded in the natural landscape...
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The fight of Maximilian I for Burgundy

Fraktionen und Allianzen im Kampf Maximilians I. um Burgund Mit dem Tod Herzogin Marias von Burgund (1482) entbrannte in den burgundischen Niederlanden ein Streit um ihre Nachfolge. Einig war man sich, dass ihr minderjähriger Sohn Philipp (* 1478)  der wahre Herzog von Burgund sei, uneinig war man sich dagegen, wer bis zu seiner Volljährigkeit regieren sollte: Marias Prinzgemahl, der später...
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The Letter Network of a pagan Scholar of Late Antiquity

Networks, Networking, and Social Network Analysis: An Exploration through Libanius’ Letters Letter collections have been amongst the most fruitful sources used to carry out historical network analysis (e.g. McLean 2007). Yet barring few exceptions (e.g. Alexander & Danowski 1990, Schor 2007), most ancient collections still await exploration from this point of view. This paper applies social...
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Networks of ancient Palmyra

Pastoralism, subsistence and territorial control in Roman period Palmyra: a hydrological approachPalmyra, a city in Roman Syria, flourished in the first three centuries CE. The city's wealth was to a large extent based on caravan trade between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Epigraphic sources reveal that Palmyra, as any city of the period, maintained a city limit and a territory...
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The diplomatic network of the Ancient Greeks

The network of interstate treaties in the Ancient Greek World, 500-336 BCE Data source: P. Kehne, 1000 ausgewählte Internationalverträge (Staatsverträge) der griechisch-römischen Antike, In: B. Eder – J. Derlien, Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, Vol 16: Register, Listen, Tabellen. Stuttgart – Weimar 2003, p. 338-437. Recorded are all interstate treaties between Greek poleis as well as...
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OpenAtlas - a database system for networks of the past

OpenAtlas - A database system for object oriented modelling of historical relationships The paper gives a short overview on the OpenAtlas Software, which aims at recording and managing information on relationships between historical "entitites". The software offers a user-interface to record the networks between actors, events, sources as well as physical things and connects them with spatial and...
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Analysing a Secret Revolutionary Network

The Friendly Society (Philike Hetaireia): Analysing a Post-Napoleonic Europe’s Secret Revolutionary Network The early months of 1821 witnessed the outbreak of a co-ordinated large-scale uprising against the Ottoman empire and its rule over Christians both at the East and the utmost South of the Balkan peninsula. The ensuing war became the Greek war of independence. The idea had been articulated...
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Mapping MEDieval CONflicts

Mapping MEDieval CONflicts: a digital approach towards political dynamics in the pre-modern periodFunded within the go!digital-Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)Host Institution: Institute for Medieval Research. OEAW (IMAFO)PI: Dr. J. Preiser-Kapeller, IMAFO (Email: Johannes.Preiser-Kapeller@oeaw.ac.at) Website: : https://oeaw.academia.edu/MappingMedievalConflict   While...
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Exploring the spatial network of medieval elite mobility

Exploring the spatial network of Late Byzantine history: an interactive map of 336 localities connected through the mobility of 2402 members of the Byzantine elite in the years 1282 to 1402 www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zFF_0-ggg3xI.kzPtUQfs7H8s&usp=sharing Johannes Preiser-Kapeller has created a database of more than 2400 individuals and 330 places (on the basis of the Prosopographisches...
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The potential of network science for archaeology

The potential of network science for archaeology. Illustrated through a network model of market integration in the Roman economy What determines the usefulness of particular formal network methods for scholars studying past human behaviour? Is it the convenient representation of entities such as islands, objects, humans, sites and the past interactions between them as dots and lines? Or is it the...
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Pelagios: Linking Places, Entangling Data

Pelagios is an international initiative concerned with the development of Linked Open Data methods, tools and services so as to better interconnect the vast and ever-growing range of historical resources online. Specifically, it uses the Open Annotation RDF ontology [1] to associate place references within those resources to online gazetteers that offer URI-based identifiers for such places. The...
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