• Networking the Early Stuart Diplomatic Service: An Introduction

    Author(s):
    Thea Lindquist (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists
    Subject(s):
    Seventeenth century, Great Britain, History, World politics
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Meeting Title:
    Historical Network Research 4
    Meeting Org.:
    Historical Network Research
    Meeting Loc.:
    Turku, Finland
    Meeting Date:
    October 19-20, 2017
    Tag(s):
    institutional history, prosopography, diplomatic history, English history, 17th century, British history, Early modern studies, Network analysis, Political history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M68B9G
    Abstract:
    The project I would like to introduce focuses on a prosopography of the early Stuart diplomatic service (1603-1649) and networks among its members. It aims to gather, structure, analyze, and visualize biographical data associated with early Stuart diplomatic representatives. Discovering the patterns and connections in this data can help answer questions related to the increasing professionalization of the diplomatic service, among others. Learning more about factors such as the diplomats’ educational preparation, social status and mobility, career paths, and religious and political networks can provide a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the service’s evolution as an institution, as well as its role in operationalizing English foreign policy in this key period leading up to the Civil War and Interregnum. The project data are drawn from heterogeneous sources. One of the project’s goals is to produce a combined, enhanced data set on early Stuart diplomats to which related projects can readily link via standard identifiers and common data structures. In the poster, I will present this on-going project, the current state of my research, and share preliminary results.
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    Poster presentation
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