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Matthew Hammond - Digital History 14 May 2013
1. The People of Medieval Scotland
database: structure, prosopography
and network visualisation
Matthew Hammond
University of Glasgow
2.
3. Today’s Seminar
1) Behind the scenes of the PoMS database: the
transactional model of factoid prosopography
2) A glance at the prosopography of the People
of Medieval Scotland database
3) Visualising Interactions: user interface and
PoMS ‘Labs’
4) New Directions: the Leverhulme project
7. Print prosopography: PLRE
• Records biographical details about a person’s life
• Martindale’s Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire:
• Eucherius 4 (v.inl. 470)
– Of noble birth; Sid. Ap. Ep. III 8.2.
– Addressee of a letter from Sidonious Apollinaris praising him as one to whom
the Roman state owed much for his military activities without having
rewarded him; Sid. Ap. Ep. III 8 (facile clarescit rempublicam morari beneficia
vos mereri) (the date is unknown, but the circumstances to which Sidonius
alludes in this letter may have been the attacks by the Visigoths in 471/474).
– VIR INLVSTRIS: he and Pannychius were 'inlustres'; Sid. Ap. Ep. VII 9.18 (written
in 470).
– He was apparently a candidate for the bishopric of Bourges in 470, but was
ineligible since he was twice married and so excluded by the canons; Sid. Ap.
Ep. VII 9.18.
– He was an enemy of Victorius 4 who had him imprisoned and then murdered;
Greg. Tur. HR II 20 (super Euchirium vero senatorem calumnias devolvit, sc.
Victorius).
21. What kind of people appear in a
transaction? (Roles)
• Grantor
• Beneficiary
• Addressor
• Addressee
• Consentor
• Pro anima people
• Previous holder/ grantor
• Witnesses
26. Charter (gift)
TRANSACTION: GIFT OF LOCAL CHURCH TO
MONASTERY
GRANTOR
(LANDHOLDER)
WITNESSES
BENEFICIARY
(MONASTERY)
CONSENTOR
(e.g., spouse or
heir)
PRO ANIMA
PEOPLE
27. Renewal
SECONDARY
TRANSACTION: GIFT OF
LANDS BY LANDHOLDER
(e.g. Knight)
PRIMARY TRANSACTION: RENEWAL OF GIFT(S)
GRANTOR (e.g.,
KING, POPE)
BENEFICIARY
(MONASTERY)
WITNESSES
SECONDARY
TRANSACTION:
CONFIRMATION OF GIFT
BY LORD (e.g. Earl)
GRANTORS
28. PoMS factoid types (authority lists)
• TRANSACTIONS
– ROLES of PERSONS in TRANSACTIONS
– Intersection of DOCUMENT TYPE & TRANSACTION
• POSSESSIONS & PRIVILEGES
• BROWSING THE FACTOIDS (faceted browser)
– TRANSACTION FACET
• Includes POSSESSIONS and PRIVILEGES
– TERMS OF TENURE
59. The Transformation of Gaelic Scotland
in the 12th & 13th centuries
• Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2013-16
• Project team: Dauvit Broun, John Bradley,
Matthew Hammond, Neil Jakeman, SNA
person
• Development of further network analysis,
visualization, and mapping tools to better
understand the Poms set of data
61. Potential geographical analysis in Poms
• Information about place attached to the following
entities:
– Locative Surnames (Person Page)
• Scottish places (Douglas, Ogilvie, Leslie)
• English places (Lindsey, Ramsey, Berkeley)
• French places (Brix [Bruce], Morville, Bailleul [Balliol])
– Titles (bishop of St Andrews, earl of Fife)
– Documents (place-dates of charters)
– Possessions & privileges
• Land
• Parish church
• Right of patronage of church
• Permission to take wood in forest of Edzell
62. Network visualization potential
• Explicitly defined relationships
– 18,956 relationship factoids in PoMS
– 191 types of relationship falling into three
categories:
• Familial relationships
• Employment relationships
• Tenurial and lordship relationships
• Implicitly defined relationships/ connections
– E.g., witnesses to same charters of same person
