Mapping MEDieval CONflicts: a digital approach towards political dynamics in the pre-modern periodFunded within the go!digital-Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)Host Institution: Institute for Medieval Research. OEAW (IMAFO)PI: Dr. J. Preiser-Kapeller, IMAFO (Email:...

Exploring the spatial network of Late Byzantine history: an interactive map of 336 localities connected through the mobility of 2402 members of the Byzantine elite in the years 1282 to 1402 www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zFF_0-ggg3xI.kzPtUQfs7H8s&usp=sharing Johannes Preiser-Kapeller has...

My interests lie in the intersection of relational sociology, medieval history, and political studies. My current doctoral research, "Nobility and Royal Functionaries in the Kingdom of Sicily: Social control and organization of the aristocracy in the Norman Mezzogiorno (1140-1189)," is a study of...

Born 1973, Ioannina (Greece), Dr. phil (Byzantine Studies), University of Vienna 2006. Post-doc researcher at the University of Vienna Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (Wittgenstein-Project). Research Focus on Byzantine monasticism, social and economic history, social and spatial...

Tom Brughmans is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz. He received his PhD in Archaeology from the University of Southampton (2014) for his work entitled Evaluating network science in archaeology. A Roman archaeology perspective; he...

The potential of network science for archaeology. Illustrated through a network model of market integration in the Roman economy What determines the usefulness of particular formal network methods for scholars studying past human behaviour? Is it the convenient representation of entities such as...

born 1977, Zwettl (NÖ). Dr. phil. (Byzantine Studies), University of Vienna 2006. Research Fellow at the Division for Byzantine Research/Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Lecturer at the University of Vienna. Supervisor of the projects “Complexities and...

Pelagios is an international initiative concerned with the development of Linked Open Data methods, tools and services so as to better interconnect the vast and ever-growing range of historical resources online. Specifically, it uses the Open Annotation RDF ontology [1] to associate place...

An interactive map of 336 localities connected through the mobility of 2402 members of the Byzantine elite in the years 1282 to 1402 https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zFF_0-ggg3xI.kzPtUQfs7H8s&usp=sharing I have created a database of more than 2400 individuals and 330 places (on the basis...

A team of scholars from around the world, from fields as diverse as evolutionary biology, psychology, and archaeology, is working on a project that's concentrating huge volumes of data on social complexity, warfare, ritual, religion, resources, politics, and economics all into one place. The...