Matthew Hammond
King's College London, History, Post-Doc
- University of Glasgow, History, Post-Docadd
- Early Medieval Scotland, Gaelic Scotland, Medieval Aristocracy, Anthroponyms, Onomastic, Anthropology of Personal Names, Prosopography, Charters and Paleography, and 16 moreCeltic Scotland, Scotland during the central Middle Ages, Monasteries in scotland, Monastic charters and cartularies, Late Medieval Scotland, The Church in Medieval Scotland, Knighthood, Scotland, Medieval Wales, Medieval Latin, Social Network Analysis (Medieval Studies), Chivalry (Medieval Studies), Historiography, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Name Studies, and Medieval Prosopographyedit
- Matthew Hammond has worked extensively on the People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1314 database and web resource. The la... moreMatthew Hammond has worked extensively on the People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1314 database and web resource. The last three years have involved Leverhulme funding to apply Social Network Analysis techniques to the database. I am working currently on a monograph which reconsiders the lay society of 'Scotland proper' between 1124 and 1286 using digital prosopography and SNA. I am also editing a volume on Personal Names in medieval Scotland.
BIOGRAPHY
I conducted my PhD work at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of now Prof Dauvit Broun, completing in 2005. Building on the prosopographical approach adopted in my thesis, Broun and I worked together to create the People of Medieval Scotland database and website (www.poms.ac.uk) , which was first launched in 2010 and has since attracted more than 70,000 unique users worldwide.
After three years as a Lecturer in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, I worked again with Prof Broun, successfully obtaining funding from the Leverhulme Trust to apply Social Network Analysis techniques to the ‘PoMS’ database, extensive results of which are now available on the website.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former council member of the Scottish History Society and the Scottish Medievalists, I have published extensively on digital humanities and prosopography, charters and diplomatic, aristocratic society, and personal names.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital Humanities and prosopography ·
Medieval charters and diplomatic
Aristocratic networks and social network analysis
Anthroponymy and surnames
Medieval ethnic, national, and other identities
EXPERTISE
I have delivered papers at the IHR Digital History series, Battle Conference, Thirteenth-Century England, Digital Humanites Congress (Sheffield), The Connected Past (Southampton) and an array of other universities and conferences. I am the administrator of the Social Network Analysis Researchers of the Middle Ages. I manage the People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1314 Facebook page, with over 4,000 followers. I am available for public outreach on Historical Social Network Analysis, Digital Humanities and Prosopography, and Medieval Scottish History generally.
Selected publications
PUBLICATIONS
Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland (editor), Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2019
Social Network Analysis and the People of Medieval Scotland (1093-1286) Database (2017)
‘The adoption and routinization of Scottish royal charter production for lay beneficiaries, 1124 – 1195’, pp. 91-115 in David Bates (ed.), Anglo-Norman Studies, 36. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2014.
New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286 (editor). Studies in Celtic History, 32. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013
‘The bishop, the prior, and the founding of the burgh of St Andrews’, The Innes Review 66 (2015), 72-101edit
This paper describes several aspects of a formal digital semantic model that expresses some issues presented by medieval charters. Surprisingly, perhaps, this model does not deal directly with a charter's text and is not mark-up... more
This paper describes several aspects of a formal digital semantic model that expresses some issues presented by medieval charters. Surprisingly, perhaps, this model does not deal directly with a charter's text and is not mark-up based. Instead, it draws on the authors’ experience with the construction of three highly structured factoid-oriented prosopographical databases that drew heavily on charter sources, and that also did not explicitly contain a digital representation of the charter texts. The paper explains the way in which the structured data model thus derived differs from text-oriented approaches such as TEI/CEI work that has been done so far on charters. It presents a view on why this factoid-based model seems to capture more readily some of the complexity in the apparent meanings of the charters, and suggests that this is because it is also more likely to relate to a richer conception of the broader medieval world in which these charters were created than text-oriente...
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A la fin des annees 1220, Ermengarde, reine des Ecossais, et son fils, le roi Alexandre II, fonderent une maison-fille de l'abbaye de Melrose a Balmerino dans le Fife. La nouvelle abbaye etait dediee a Edouard le Confesseur, un saint... more
A la fin des annees 1220, Ermengarde, reine des Ecossais, et son fils, le roi Alexandre II, fonderent une maison-fille de l'abbaye de Melrose a Balmerino dans le Fife. La nouvelle abbaye etait dediee a Edouard le Confesseur, un saint roi anglais, probablement sur l'ordre d'Ermengarde. Les chartes de l'abbaye montrent une baisse croissante de l'importance de saint Edouard apres la mort de la reine en 1233, ou il passe a la deuxieme place apres la Vierge Marie et en disparait completement dans les annees 1240. De la meme facon, les references aux titres abbatiaux au-dela du XIII e siecle montrent une rupture de la relation avec saint Edouard. Cet article tente de situer le cas de Balmerino dans le contexte des autres abbayes cisterciennes a double patronage. Les raisons politiques sous-jacentes sont egalement examinees, notamment a la lumiere du mariage d'Alexandre avec la soeur d'Henri III, Jeanne, et son remariage avec Marie de Coucy apres la mort de Jeanne en 1238.
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The intertwined relationship between the foundation of the burgh of St Andrews by Robert, bishop of St Andrews (d.1159), and the establishment of the Augustinian cathedral priory (St Andrews Day 1140) has not hitherto been explored.... more
The intertwined relationship between the foundation of the burgh of St Andrews by Robert, bishop of St Andrews (d.1159), and the establishment of the Augustinian cathedral priory (St Andrews Day 1140) has not hitherto been explored. Building on the work of A. A. M. Duncan, it is argued here that the burgh was set up in response to the establishment of the new priory and the ambitious programme pursued by its first prior, Robert (1140–60). The burgh's early history was bound up in the contentious relationship of bishop and prior, as Prior Robert sought to gain sole control over the cathedral and the altar of the apostle Saint Andrew, the parish church, ecclesiastical lands in east Fife, and their revenues. The burgh allowed Bishop Robert to recoup some of his financial losses, but the priory's commercial ambitions presented competition for the…
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This article traces the adoption of charters by women in Scotia, the core region of the kingdom of the Scots north of the Firth of Forth, in the twelfth century, and the developments in charter diplomatic employed primarily by monastic... more
This article traces the adoption of charters by women in Scotia, the core region of the kingdom of the Scots north of the Firth of Forth, in the twelfth century, and the developments in charter diplomatic employed primarily by monastic beneficiaries over the course of the following century. Initially, charters were produced in the name of countesses making donations of churches and lands to religious houses, and monastic scribes developed idiosyncratic methods of ‘strengthening’ these gifts through the confirmation of a husband or male relative. In the thirteenth century, charters in the name of women became more plentiful, especially in the case of widows, and more standard formulas emphasising the ‘lawful power of widowhood’ were employed widely. Charters also increasingly recorded donations and other acts by married women across the social scale, either on their own or jointly with their husbands. Moreover, gifts by men of lands which came to them de jure uxoris included standard...
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Historians have long tended to define medieval Scottish society in terms of interactions between ethnic groups. This approach was developed over the course of the long nineteenth century, a formative period for the study of medieval... more
Historians have long tended to define medieval Scottish society in terms of interactions between ethnic groups. This approach was developed over the course of the long nineteenth century, a formative period for the study of medieval Scotland. At that time, many scholars based their analysis upon scientific principles, long since debunked, which held that medieval ‘peoples’ could only be understood in terms of ‘full ethnic packages’. This approach was combined with a positivist historical narrative that defined Germanic Anglo-Saxons and Normans as the harbingers of advances in Civilisation. While the prejudices of that era have largely faded away, the modern discipline still relies all too often on a dualistic ethnic framework. This is particularly evident in a structure of periodisation that draws a clear line between the ‘Celtic’ eleventh century and the ‘Norman’ twelfth. Furthermore, dualistic oppositions based on ethnicity continue, particularly in discussions of law, kingship, l...
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Royal Women in Scandinavia, 1250-1350 conference, University of Catania at Ragusa, Sicily, 25 Oct. 2018
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Conference of Scottish Medievalists, A. A. M. Duncan Memorial Lecture, Cumbernauld, 6 Jan. 2019
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University of York, Department of History research seminars, 20 Feb. 2019
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Session 212 at the International Medieval Congress Leeds 2018 (Monday 2 July 2018: 14.15-15.45) The techniques and the conceptual framework of network analysis have recently found their way into historical scholarship. Several important... more
Session 212 at the International Medieval Congress Leeds 2018 (Monday 2 July 2018: 14.15-15.45)
The techniques and the conceptual framework of network analysis have recently found their way into historical scholarship. Several important endeavours, such as the establishment of the Journal of Historical Network Research, testify to the growing interest of historians in network analysis and more generally in structured relational data. This panel, intended as the inception of a series recurring annually at the IMC, aims at gathering some of the otherwise rather dispersed papers building on network analysis, applying this methodology to medieval material, bringing palpable results of interest to scholars from the respective fields of expertise, and promoting comparison and debate. This year's sessions pay special attention to processes of governance accessed through networks extracted from diplomatic sources, and to medieval learning and intertextuality accessed through networks of manuscripts, authors, and citations.
The techniques and the conceptual framework of network analysis have recently found their way into historical scholarship. Several important endeavours, such as the establishment of the Journal of Historical Network Research, testify to the growing interest of historians in network analysis and more generally in structured relational data. This panel, intended as the inception of a series recurring annually at the IMC, aims at gathering some of the otherwise rather dispersed papers building on network analysis, applying this methodology to medieval material, bringing palpable results of interest to scholars from the respective fields of expertise, and promoting comparison and debate. This year's sessions pay special attention to processes of governance accessed through networks extracted from diplomatic sources, and to medieval learning and intertextuality accessed through networks of manuscripts, authors, and citations.