“The Good Ministrye of Godlye and Vertuouse Women”: The Elizabethan Martyrologists and the Female Supporters of the Marian Martyrs

Freeman, Thomas S.

doi:10.1086/386208

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“…They then used various mathematical tools to measure the centrality of each of its members. The results of this analysis brought their attention to people who have been traditionally overlooked by other scholars, including various female members such as Joyce Hales and Margery Cooke (Ahnert and Ahnert, 15 and elsewhere Freeman, 13). It also highlighted that letter carriers and financial sustainers (people who held the network together) were more important than they suspected; and ‘that their significance increased as the martyrs died’ (Ahnert and Ahnert, 3‐4).…”

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Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle

Bourke

2017

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This article builds upon the pioneering work of Carol Pal, Lynette Hunter, Ruth Connolly and Michelle DiMeo by carrying out an extensive social network analysis of the Hartlib Papers. By adapting the methodology recently developed by Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert to analyse Protestant letter networks memorialised in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, this article uses digital and visual tools to assess the importance of female involvement in the Hartlib Circle. It examines how integral female members were to the information flow of this network and the degree to which their positions in the network granted them influence over other members. Through this computational approach, this article also challenges the view that at its core the Hartlib Circle was made up of a group of male friends, arguing that Dorothy Moore Dury and Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh need to be recognised as integral elements of this network's core.

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Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle

Bourke

2017

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“…as Thomas s. freeman has remarked, "to ignore the majority of Marian Protestants who did not die for the gospel is to study the steeple and believe that you have examined the entire church." 8 i. reconsTrUcTing an ePisToLary coMMUniTy reconstructing the church beneath the steeple requires a combination of archival work and computational analysis. The 289 letters that form the basis of this study are scattered throughout foxe's papers and publications, and two further print sources: many of the letters were printed in foxe's "book of Martyrs," first published in 1563, and the associated publication Certain Most Godly, Fruitful 9 Many of the printed letters also survive in manuscript and holograph versions in foxe's papers, held in the british Library and emmanuel college Library, cambridge.…”

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Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach

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2015

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Protestant Letter Networksregulatory networks, and social networks-share an underlying order and follow simple laws, and therefore can be analyzed using the same mathematical tools and models.2 These publications build on work from various different disciplines, such as sociology, mathematics, and physics, which stretches back some decades. The theoretical approaches of social network analysis have already made an impact in the fields of historical corpus linguistics, coterie studies, and the history of science, amongst others; but the application of mathematical and computational techniques developed by scientists working in the field of complex networks to the arts and humanities is a relatively recent development, and one that is gaining increasing traction, offering as it does both technical tools and a sense of contemporaneity in a world now dominated by social networking platforms. despite these developments, however, there is still much work to be done before these statistical methods are embedded within the literary historian's toolbox. all too often the word "network" is used by scholars in this field as a useful metaphor-in much the way that Thomas More wielded the word "canker." This article will demonstrate how the mathematical tools employed by network scientists offer valuable ways of understanding the development of underground religious communities in the sixteenth century, as well as providing different approaches for historians and literary scholars working in archives.while it is not possible to corroborate More's fears about the extent and organization of evangelical communities in england during the 1530s due to lack of documentation, considerable evidence for the structure of the underground Protestant communities functioning in the catholic reign of Mary i survives in collections of correspondence. early modern correspondence provides a unique textual witness to social relations and structures. gary schneider has described renaissance letters as "sociotexts": as "crucial material bearers of social connection, instruments by which social ties were initiated, negotiated, and consolidated." 3 Letters were the method by which people sought patronage, garnered favor, and engineered their social mobility; they were a means of communicating alliance, fidelity, and homage; and they could be used "as testimonies, as material evidence of social connectedness."4 The modern perception of private correspondence was one that simply did not exist in the early modern period. instead, epistolary conventions implicated multiple parties in the composition, transmission, and reception of letters. common letters (intended for more than one recipient or written by more than one sender) most clearly demarcate the idea of an epistolary community, but senders also

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“…Journal articles by members of the project have also opened up aspects of Foxe that were previously untouched: although Anne Askew is one of the most famous of Foxe's martyrs, without Thomas Freeman's work we would be unaware of the 'female sustainers' and Foxe's treatment of them in the Book of Martyrs. 9 Only an accident of periodisation could leave later seventeenth-century religious prose unmentioned. The work of Nigel Smith on Civil War religious radicals and that of Neil Keeble on the literature of Non-conformists continue to offer an example of how historically and theological informed readings of such material can bring it alive for the modern reader.…”

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