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Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB

Cilt: 13 Sayı: 5 10 Kasım 2026
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Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB

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When names occur together in historical records, do they reveal alliances or adjacency produced by documentary form? This article compares charter-role networks in the May 2020 People of Medieval Scotland (PoMS) data snapshot with epistolary, funerary, paratextual, scholarly, and collegial relations in the June 2026 China Biographical Database (CBDB). PoMS covers 1093–1371; the CBDB sample includes figures from the pre-imperial era to the Qing dynasty. An evidence ladder distinguishes one-time co-presence from repeated coordination and persistent or multiplex association while preserving role, direction, genre, and provenance. Only 6.74 per cent of 177,469 PoMS person-pairs occur in at least three charters spanning five years, yet stable co-witnessing remains highly connected and becomes more clustered. In CBDB, 15.46 per cent of 56,276 selected pairs are repeated or multiplex. Correspondence repeats at 21.11 per cent, compared with 7.87 per cent for funerary and biographical writing. The latter layer's transitivity of 0.0065 identifies reputational hubs rather than cohesive factions. The comparison shows how repeated lists generate closure while directed textual commissions generate spokes. Historical interpretations of trust, cooperation, and power must therefore test documentary mechanisms before treating network patterns as social structure.

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None. This study received no external funding.

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This study uses publicly available historical and bibliographic records only. It involves no living participants, interviews, fieldwork, animals, or experiments; formal ethics committee approval was not required. The author declares no conflict of interest. AI-assisted language editing, Turkish translation, and technical formatting are disclosed in the manuscript and signed ethics declaration.

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Birincil Dil

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Konular

Ortaçağ Tarihi (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

10 Kasım 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

4 Eylül 2026

Kabul Tarihi

10 Kasım 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 13 Sayı: 5

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APA
Xu, S. (2026). Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi, 13(5). https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL
AMA
1.Xu S. Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB. ATDD. 2026;13(5). https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL
Chicago
Xu, Suhu. 2026. “Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB”. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi 13 (5). https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL.
EndNote
Xu S (10 Kasım 2026) Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi 13 5
IEEE
[1]S. Xu, “Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB”, ATDD, c. 13, sy 5, Kas. 2026, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL
ISNAD
Xu, Suhu. “Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB”. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi 13/5 (10 Kasım 2026). https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL.
JAMA
1.Xu S. Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB. ATDD. 2026;13. Available at https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL.
MLA
Xu, Suhu. “Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB”. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi, c. 13, sy 5, Kasım 2026, https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL.
Vancouver
1.Suhu Xu. Documentary Co-Appearance and Elite Alliances: A Comparative Study of PoMS and CBDB. ATDD [Internet]. 10 Kasım 2026;13(5). Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA48UB54JL

 

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