Balancing openness and closure in early modern correspondence networks

Ingeborg van Vugt, PhD candidate at Scuola Normale Superiore, Her PhD project is focused on the development of networks and strategies in response to contrasting political and religious realities within early modern society.

This presentation uses computational techniques developed by social network scientists to reconstruct and analyse the epistolary relations between the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.As the number of online letter archives keeps growing, it is time to take full advantage of this ever-extending database and to discover how computational approaches can advance the study of early modern correspondence. All are welcome and there will be drinks and discussion after the presentations. Attendance is free but we kindly ask that you register for the event.