Published October 4, 2021 | Version Camera-ready
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Advances in Distant Diplomatics. A Stylometric Approach to Medieval Charters (data and code)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. University of Antwerp

Description

The materials archived in this repository accompany and support the following paper:

E. Leclerq & M. Kestemont, 'Advances in Distant Diplomatics. A Stylometric Approach to Medieval Charters', in: Interfaces. A Journal of Medieval European Literatures [2021].

The contents of this repository are the following:

  • analysis.ipynb: a Python notebook with all the code that was used for the analyses reported in the paper.
  • CorpusCaseRogerFJeanE (zipped folder): a collection of plain text files with the original charters. A primitive encoding scheme was applied to distinguish various subsections in the charters (see the Python notebook for the symbol legend).
  • figures (zipped folder): full-res versions of the automatically generated plots for the paper.
  • embed (zipped folder): interactive HTML scatterplots of the charters, colored depending on different kinds of metadata for a more intuitive exploration.
  • hits (zipped folder): HTML files containing a tabular representation of all intertexts detected between two charters (the pair of charters is identified in the filename).
  • MetadataCaseRogerFJeanE.xlsx (spreadsheet): a spreadsheet that encodes various kinds of metadata for each charter.
  • README.md: a README file.

The original raw texts for all charters were collected from the Diplomata Belgica and the Chartae Galliae databases. In the metadata spreadsheet, the precise origin of the individual charters is given.

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