R: Florentine Family Marriage Ties Data as a "network" object

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## Florentine Family Marriage Ties Data as a “network" object

### Description

This is a data set of marriage ties among Renaissance Florentine families. The data is originally from Padgett (1994) via `UCINET` and stored as a `network` object.

Breiger \& Pattison (1986), in their discussion of local role analysis, use a subset of data on the social relations among Renaissance Florentine families (person aggregates) collected by John Padgett from historical documents. The relations are marriage alliances (`flomarriage` betwween the families.

As Breiger \& Pattison point out, the original data are symmetrically coded. This is perhaps acceptable perhaps for marital ties. Vertex information is provided on (1) `wealth` each family's net wealth in 1427 (in thousands of lira); (2) `priorates` the number of priorates (seats on the civic council) held between 1282- 1344; and (3) `totalties` the total number of business or marriage ties in the total dataset of 116 families (see Breiger \& Pattison (1986), p 239).

Substantively, the data include families who were locked in a struggle for political control of the city of Florence around 1430. Two factions were dominant in this struggle: one revolved around the infamous Medicis (9), the other around the powerful Strozzis (15).

### Usage

     data(florentine)

### Source

Padgett, John F. 1994. Marriage and Elite Structure in Renaissance Florence, 1282-1500. Paper delivered to the Social Science History Association.

### References

Wasserman, S. and Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Breiger R. and Pattison P. (1986). Cumulated social roles: The duality of persons and their algebras, Social Networks, 8, 215-256.

### See Also

flobusiness, flo, network, plot.network, ergm

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