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Social Network Analysis [ Social interaction ]

… Abstract Social network analysis is an interdisciplinary digital humanities approach aimed at understanding how people are … analysis tools enable historians to process historical metadata and generate increasingly large visualizations of social networks, making it possible to identify a network’s central, influential, and best-connected members. While …

Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]

… he called friend would remain sacred throughout his life. People > Association Keywords Friendship Worldliness celebrity networks Patronage theater Voltaire styled himself the ‘hermit of the Alps’ 1  in much of the correspondence he produced … and would contribute enormously towards shaping his personality. To understand the latter, we must explore the different social networks that structured Voltaire’s existence. At the age of ten, François-Marie Arouet, the future Voltaire, was … he regularly corresponded; yet their friendship would remain founded on the awareness of their profound differences in social status. François-Marie Arouet may have grown to be the best of friends with his noble fellows, he was still no …

Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… Abstract Daniel Defoe was best known as a writer and his primary social networks grew out of his intense engagement with the print trade. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Defoe’s sociability … as a ‘scribbler’ and his public identity was that of a controversial and prolific author. In this way, Defoe’s style of social networking is closer to that of the twenty-first century than that of his own day. People > Art and Literature …

Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]

… Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the Americas. Correspondence was the defining feature of its existence, enabling the … was also enriched by networks grounded in institutions. These included scholarly networks created by the academies, and social networks that met face-to-face, thanks to increased travel and social institutions such as the salons, coffeehouses, and masonic lodges. Concepts > National & Transnational cultures …

James Byres [ Travel ]

… as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly became a key player in Rome’s artistic, cultural and social life. Thanks to his various professional activities, he was a central figure in the social practices of the British Grand Tourists and artists who visited Rome.   People > Travel Keywords Grand Tour Italy Education Art networks Jacobitism The Scotsman James Byres lived for over thirty years in Rome, where he became one of the main players …

Salons [ Associational culture ]

… to debate the relationship of the salons to the Enlightenment, the salons were nevertheless a defining feature of social life in the Ancien Régime , with hundreds of salons taking place throughout Paris. These weekly gatherings featured a mixed-gendered group of aristocrats, artists, and men of letters. The salons were social gatherings, involving conversation and games, but they were also sites for literary and philosophical discussion, … and patronage. Practices > Associational culture Keywords Salon Enlightenment Philosophes Salon hostess France networks Patronage The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of sociability of the French Enlightenment, even …