{"title":"Mapping women’s relational networks in Carolingian Septimania, 795–850","authors":"Courtney Luckhardt","doi":"10.1111/emed.12779","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the Digital Humanities methods of network analysis and visualization to study the social networks of migrants and locals in the charters of Carolingian Septimania, this article argues that within these documents women played a central role in the relational social actions of kinship, patronage, and legal ties. The diffuse, horizontal social networks visually demonstrate how migration to the Marca Hispanica from both Hispania and Francia allowed many people, including women, to take advantage of a socio-economic system in flux.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"412-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Early Medieval Europe","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.12779","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using the Digital Humanities methods of network analysis and visualization to study the social networks of migrants and locals in the charters of Carolingian Septimania, this article argues that within these documents women played a central role in the relational social actions of kinship, patronage, and legal ties. The diffuse, horizontal social networks visually demonstrate how migration to the Marca Hispanica from both Hispania and Francia allowed many people, including women, to take advantage of a socio-economic system in flux.
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Early Medieval Europe provides an indispensable source of information and debate on the history of Europe from the later Roman Empire to the eleventh century. The journal is a thoroughly interdisciplinary forum, encouraging the discussion of archaeology, numismatics, palaeography, diplomatic, literature, onomastics, art history, linguistics and epigraphy, as well as more traditional historical approaches. It covers Europe in its entirety, including material on Iceland, Ireland, the British Isles, Scandinavia and Continental Europe (both west and east).