Medieval Russian Social and Economic "Connectedness" in the 12th and 13th Centuries: Vernacular Textual Dissemination, Connection Arrays and Short-Pat

我拟写的论文将考察世纪俄国部分城市的社会和经济“联系性”，这一点得到了桦树皮文献的证实。在这里，社会联系被定义为朋友和亲戚关系，经济联系被定义为与贸易有关的活动（以及所谓的“同事”关系），如毛皮贸易。Mythesis旨在回答几个问题。1)哪些城市通过桦树林中的社会/经济网络联系在一起（包括通过传播手段：河流和公路路线以及信使）。2)这些网络在不同距离上有多强（可以用社会矩阵、关联矩阵、图论和数字人文技术来绘制）。我的论文旨在使用数字化工具（如Gephi）将这些网络可视化，并使该领域的其他人可以使用这项研究。我的论文将主要使用桦树皮文件，但其他文件（如第一诺夫哥罗德编年史）将参考。这些birchbark文件中的社会和经济网络将使用社会网络分析方法进行分析-即图论，矩阵（社会矩阵和关联矩阵），以及用于可视化和操作文本数据的数字化工具。

My proposed thesis will examine the social and economic "connectedness", as attested by birchbark documents, ofselect cities in 12th-13th century Rus'. Here, social connectedness is defined by kith and kin relationships, and economicconnectedness as trade-related activities (and what may be termed "co-worker" relationships) such as the fur-trade. Mythesis aims to answer several questions. 1) Which cities were connected by social/economic networks in birchbarkcommunication (including by its means of dissemination: river and road routes, and messengers). 2) How strong werethese networks across distances (which may be charted using sociomatrices, incidence matrices, graph theory, anddigital humanities technologies). My thesis aims to visualise these networks using digital tools, such as Gephi, and tomake this research available to others in the field. My thesis will primarily use birchbark documents, but other documents(such as the First Novgorodian Chronicle) will be consulted. The social and economic networks present in thesebirchbark documents will be analysed using social network analysis methods - namely graph theory, matrices(sociomatrices and incidence matrices), and digital tools for visualising and manipulating textual data.