Over the last decade, network analysis has developed as an approach within digital humanities as a wider array of tools has become available to humanities scholars, and these approaches are now beginning to make an impact on the disciplines of history and English. This article presents an overview of different ways of approaching network analysis. It assesses recent projects to see how they accounted for gender in their datasets and what can be learnt about early modern women from these projects. It then looks at how projects in Ireland are engaging with network analysis, discussing the approaches used by RECIRC and introducing MACMORRIS's analysis of the Dictionary of Irish biography (D.I.B.) and the Bardic Poetry Database (B.P.D.), looking at how the latter is attempting to overcome the unconscious gender bias inherent in the D.I.B.'s selection of early modern lives from the period between 1541 and 1660. Finally, it points to some of the wider issues we as scholars face when engaging with this methodology, such as access to the required training and collaboration, arguing that while these are not unique challenges to the study of gender history in Ireland, they are important debates that can enhance scholarship in the field.

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网络早期现代爱尔兰女性

在过去的十年中，随着越来越多的工具可供人文学者使用，网络分析已发展成为数字人文学科中的一种方法，并且这些方法现在开始对历史和英语学科产生影响。本文概述了进行网络分析的不同方法。它评估了最近的项目，以了解它们如何在数据集中考虑性别，以及可以从这些项目中了解早期现代女性的哪些信息。然后，它着眼于爱尔兰的项目如何参与网络分析，讨论RECIRC并介绍麦克莫里斯的爱尔兰传记词典 (DIB) 和吟游诗人数据库 (BPD) 的分析，研究后者如何试图克服 DIB 选择 1541 年至 1660 年间早期现代生活所固有的无意识性别偏见。最后, 它指出了我们作为学者在使用这种方法时面临的一些更广泛的问题，例如获得所需的培训和合作，认为虽然这些并不是爱尔兰性别历史研究的独特挑战，但它们是重要的辩论这可以提高该领域的学术水平。