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Book SynopsisTudor 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 survive in the State Papers from the Tudor period provide crucial information about the textual organization of the social network centred on the Tudor government. Whole libraries have been written using this archive, but until now nobody has had access to the macroscopic tools that allow us to ask questions such as: What are the reasons for the structure of the Tudor government''s intelligence network? What was it geographical reach and coverage? Can we use network data to show patterns of surveillance? What role did women play in these government networks? And what biases are there in the data? T
Table of ContentsForeword Part I: Groundwork 1: Tudor Letters in the Digital Age 2: The Shape of the Archive Part II: Structure 3: Betweenness 4: Network Profiles and 'Intelligence Producers' 5: Surveillance Measures 6: Women: Petitioning, Power, and Mediation Part III: Movement 7: Information Flow 8: Itineraries Afterword
