Publications

Academic Publications

P. MacCarron, M. MacCarron, S. Dahmen, Joseph Yose, R. Kenna, 'A Network Approach: Tracking Female Power in Seven Epic Narratives' in P. Lothspeich (ed.), The Epic World (London: Routledge, 2023).

J. Hillner, Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

J. Hillner, M. MacCarron, U. Vihervalli, 'The Politics of Female Namelessness Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages', Journal of Late Antiquity 15.2 (2022). 

U. Vihervalli, 'Wartime Rape in Late Antiquity: Consecrated Virgins and Victim Bias in the Fifth-Century West', Early Medieval Europe 30.1 (2022). 

J. Hillner, M. MacCarron, ‘Female Networks and Exiled Bishops between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: The Cases of Liberius of Rome and Wilfrid of York’, in Emma O’Loughlin Bérat, Rebecca Hardie and Irina Dumitrescu (eds.), Relations of Power: Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages, Göttingen: Bonn University Press, 2021, 19-44.

S. Prado, S. Dahmen, A. Bazzan, M. MacCarron, J. Hillner, 'Gendered Networks and Communicability in Medieval Historical Narratives', Advances in Complex Systems 23.3 (2020). (Available here; manuscript of first submission in Open Access here, and a twitter thread summarising our findings here). 

[in press] J. Hillner, M. MacCarron, 'Prosopography and Social Network Analysis', in R. Flower, M. Horster, R. Mathisen, Brill Companion to Roman Prosopography.

[in preparation] M. MacCarron, 'Bede, Women and Narrative Networks in Early Medieval Britain'

[in preparation]  U. Vihervalli, 'The Use and Abuse of Women in the Ecclesiastical Histories of Eusebius of Caesarea and Rufinus of Aquileia'.

[in preparation] J. Hillner, 'Imperial Women, Violence and the Endless Dynasty in Late Antiquity'

Blogs

Julia Hillner, Networking Helena (26 June 2019)

Julia Hillner, Writing Eusebius (22 October 2019)

Daniella Traynor, Understanding Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (13 November 2019)

Media Appearances

Máirín MacCarron was interviewed for an article on network science by Sophia Chen, ‘Scientists Reveal Ancient Social Networks Using AI—and X-Rays’, for Wired (published online 21 March 2019).

Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives is discussed in an Omega Tau Podcast (recorded on 16 September 2019).