https://recipes.hypotheses.org/6594
Since the beta version of Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
(SDFB) debuted in September, users have been joyfully exploring early
modern social networks with the interface’s easy-to-use tools and
color-coded illustrations.
http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
The much anticipated launch opens up The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
in a new way, allowing users to focus on relationships as much as the
individuals involved in them. SDFB’s visualization tools map social
connections running through English society between 1500 and 1700,
hinting at how ideas and influence traveled within the larger culture.
In short, SDFB is a fantastic new means of tracking the people involved
with early modern recipes.
While the ODNB routinely names a person’s associates, its
entries cannot fully show how those connections linked individuals
together in wider networks. Reading that Elizabeth Grey, Countess of
Kent – whose famous “powder” appears in scores of recipe books (11/02/2014)–
traveled in the same circles as John Florio, Samuel Daniel, and Queen
Elizabeth I, for example, is impressive, but her social network becomes
even more intriguing when we can see how she can also be linked to not
just Queen Henrietta Maria, but the cookbook author Robert May (21/12/2012). Her entry in the ODNB doesn’t tell us that.
