Matthew Hammond
Matthew 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), 72-101
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), 72-101
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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.