The Power of Networks

Florian Kerschbaumer is Project Manager at the Danube University Krems and Lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Linda von Keyserlingk-Rehbein is Curator and Head of the Document Department in the Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany. Martin Stark is Senior Researcher at the ILS- Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund, Germany. Marten Düring is Assistant Professor/Senior Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg.

1. Introduction

Part I: (Re-)construction of historical networks and their analysis





Networking the Res Publica. Social Network Analysis and the Republican Rome



Community detection and structural balance: network analytical modelling of political structures and actions in the Middle Ages



The Value of Network Analysis in Historical Sociology: Economic and Social Relations in Medieval


in Medieval Lübeck





4. Flemish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Seville. Approaches, Comparisons, and Methodical Considerations

5. Kinship Networks in Northwestern German Rural Society (18th/19th Centuries)

6. Mobility and Movements in Intellectual History: a Social Network Approach

3. Computational extraction of network data from large corpora





Utilizing Historical Network Analysis on Meta-data to Model East German Foreign Intelligence Cycle in the Baltic Sea Region 1975-1989



Social and semantic network analysis in the study of religions



4. Infrastructures for data collection and exploration








Deep Networks as Associative Interfaces to Historical Research



Networks as Gateways. Gleanings from Applications for the Exploration of Historical Data



5. Outlook








Historical Network Research, Digital History, and Digital Humanities