General Index. Abbreviations -- Work in Progress -- Venantius Fortunatus in Medieval Latin Poetry and the Occurrences of dulcedo -- The Manuscript Tradition -- Evaluation of Posterity and Scholastic Literature : Testimonia -- Reuse and Reworkings -- The Generative Model : Epitaph, Consolatio, Epic, Hymnody -- The Invention of Dulcedo -- The Representations of the Book in Carolingian and Ottonian Poetic Texts : The Birth of Paratextual Poetry -- The Frequency of the Lexeme Libr- in Latin Poetry -- The Carolingian Era -- Poetry of Writing -- Poetry of the Book -- The Versus Hadoardi -- The Ottonian Age -- The Representations of the Book -- Conclusions? -- Europe's Name is Europa : Europe and European in Early Medieval Latin Texts -- Europa before Europe -- Early Medieval Evidence -- Carolingian Ideology -- The Landscape as a Memory Construction in the Latin Petrarch -- The Rhetoric of the Catalogue and Itinerary Structure -- Flights and Returns -- Generic Constants and Chronological Variations in Statistical Linguistics on Latin Epistolography -- Introduction -- The Data -- The Programme -- Previous Studies -- Procedural Protocol -- Results -- Statistical Indicators of Proximity to the Early Romance Languages : Experimental Applications to Early Medieval Rhythmic Poetry -- Lexical Statistics and Authorship Detection in the Epistolae duorum amantium -- What Contribution Can Linguistic Analysis Make to This Subject? -- The Type, Token Ratio -- The Average Familiarity -- Empty Terms -- Clusters The Relative Frequencies of the Overall Lexicon -- The Rate of Overlap -- Overlap -- What Conclusions Can Be Drawn from These Statistics? -- Encoding Issues in Philological Digital Editions -- Our Experience -- The Need to Encode -- The 'Standards' Issue -- What it Means to Be a Critical Edition -- The Philological Divide -- Mediation Experiments -- Other Solutions -- Digital Philology, Medieval Texts, and the Digital Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum -- Computing and the Classics -- Experiments in Medieval Studies -- Medieval Latin -- Typology : The Archive Edition -- The Abandonment of Reconstruction? -- Technical and Methodological Innovations -- Quantity -- Relationability Interoperability -- Multimediality -- Searchability -- Reservations -- The dbr (1999) -- The Eurasian Latin Archive and the 'Long' Latin Middle Ages -- From Medieval to Global Latin -- World Language and Asiatic Latin -- The ela Project -- Aim and Methods of the Research -- Work in Progress -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Literature -- Indices -- Manuscripts -- Websites -- General Index.
Summary:
Building on 'The Carolingian Revolution: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I', this is the second of two volumes proposing ways of reading medieval Latin texts which, up to now, have had little or no attention within literary studies. This volume is founded on the belief that "the unprecedented empirical power of digital tools and archives offers a unique chance to rethink the categories of literary study" (F. Moretti). The book's first section presents cases studies applying "quantitative" criticism based on the linguistic and stylistic use of frequency wordlists which, thanks to digital tools and to a larger literature, are becoming more easily accessible and more powerful. The chapters of this section lead the reader from an application of stylometry within a traditional critical exercise, via the structured use of frequency indexing as a warning light for cultural or stylistic phenomena undetectable to the naked eye, to more technical corpus analysis experiments based on linguistic evolution or authorship attribution. The second section explores the encoding problems the author has faced when working on the realisation of digital editing projects such as the 'Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum', the 'Archivio della Latinità€ Italiana del Medioevo' (ALIM), 'Lexicon', and the 'Eurasian Latin Archive' (ELA), and proposes reflections on the typology of digital philological editions.
Series:
Utrecht studies in medieval literacy, 2034-9416 ; 49
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