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Irish medieval manuscripts figures5/28/2023 Statistical physics-inspired methodologies have long been applied to other academic disciplines, motivated not least by curiosity as to how complex systems emerge from interactions between constituent parts in non-trivial manners. For example, our understanding of the past utilizes scientific analyses of archaeological data, anthropology derives from evolutionary biology and economics requires mathematics and statistics. Modern academic disciplines do not exist in isolation and are increasingly interdependent and interconnected. This delivers a picture that lies between antipodal traditional and revisionist extremes hostilities recorded in the text are mostly between Irish and Viking-but internal conflict forms a significant proportion of the negative interactions too. We present statistical analyses of network data embedded in the text to position its sets of interactions on a spectrum from the domestic to the international. Here, we introduce quantitative measures to the discussions. Counter-revisionists challenge this view and a long-standing and lively debate continues. Instead of an international conflict between Irish and Viking, interpretations based on revisionist scholarship consider it a domestic feud or civil war. Brian’s victory is widely remembered for breaking Viking power in Ireland, although much modern scholarship disputes traditional perceptions. Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh (‘The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill’) is a medieval Irish text, telling how an army under the leadership of Brian Boru challenged Viking invaders and their allies in Ireland, culminating with the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.
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