Bronagh McShane ‘Visualising the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Nuns’ Letters’

The final event of the Autumn 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Wednesday 6 December at 12pm, and features a talk on network analysis of early modern nuns’ correspondence by Bronagh McShane, Postdoctoral Researcher at RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700. The paper discusses network analysis methodology, challenges, and consequences with respect to an archive of letters written during the seventeenth century by and about members of the English Benedictine convent in Brussels. As ever, all are welcome.

12pm | Wednesday 6 December 2017 | Hardiman Building 1001 (The Bridge) | Facebook event page

Bronagh McShane (RECIRC, NUIG) Visualising the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Nuns’ Letters Preserved in the Archive of the Archdiocese of Mechelen (AAM) in Belgium are hundreds of letters written during the seventeenth century by and about members of the English Benedictine convent in Brussels. This paper discusses the methodology for applying network visualisation tools to data gathered from this archive, some of the challenges involved in doing so, and how the application of digital and visual approaches can open up new ways of understanding the reception and circulation of early modern women’s writing.  Bronagh McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. She is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher on the project ‘RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700’, led by Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan at the National University of Ireland Galway, and funded by the European Research Council. Bronagh has published articles on aspects of her research in British Catholic History and Archivium Hibernicum and is contributing to a forthcoming collection on New Directions in Early Modern Irish History (contracted with Routledge). In 2018, she will hold a National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

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