Entangled Powers: Network Analytical Approaches to the History of the Holy Roman Empire during the Late Staufer Period

Dealing with the Heterogeneity of Interpersonal Relationships in the Middle Ages. A Multi-Layer Network Approach

“…Following in the footsteps of John Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell on the Medici (Padgett and Ansell 1993), many historians have devoted articles and books to networks of power in the Middle Ages. Exploring new explanatory models, these works, such as the articles of Isabelle Rosé (2011; or these of Robert Gramsch-Stehfest (2013; and Matthew H. Hammond (2017), have underlined the critical and methodological issues that occur in the use of medieval documentation in social network analysis. §2 Some difficulties among these are related to the heterogeneity of the set of social and political relations being modelled.…”