• This conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to pre-modern manuscripts and manuscript texts. Key topics include:

    • Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to pre-modern written cultures;
    • Application of network analysis to corpora of pre-modern manuscripts and texts;
    • Network analysis as a means of understanding the circulation of texts and transmission of knowledge in the pre-modern period;
    • Quantitative study of networks of medieval book exchange and letter exchange;
    • Network analysis as a tool of textual criticism and text editing;
    • Network graphs as stemmata of texts and genres with complex textual history;
    • Networks of co-citation of pre-modern authors and authoritative texts;
    • Networks of co-occurrence and compilation of texts in medieval manuscripts;
    • Network analysis as a tool for the study of annotation practices and commentary traditions in pre-modern manuscript cultures;
    • Network analysis as a tool for the study of citation and reception in pre-modern manuscript cultures.