The structure and dynamics of scholarly networks between the Dutch Republic and Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the 17th century

In recent years, the theoretical approaches of social network analysis have already made an impact in the historical field. Specifically, the Republic of Letters, the pan-European intellectual community of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century, has been the subject of a rich interdisciplinary historiography for the past few decades. But although this letter-writing community has attracted more and more scholarly attention in conjunction with a global turn in the practice of the digital humanities, the study of networks in historical research remains a field in its infancy. It has y... Mehr ...