From London to Florence: Discovering Information Flow in Early Modern Europe with Bayesian Time-to-Event Analysis
Toth, Gabor Mihaly
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
In early modern Europe there was an intense circulation of handwritten newsletters. Semi-professional newsagents compiled weekly newsletters and sent them to European courts, merchants, and aristocrats. This paper studies a collection of manuscript newsletters compiled by a certain Amerigo Salvetti who was the resident ambassador of Florence in London.
Narratives of Religious Dissidence in Medieval Inquisition Records: Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO) as a platform for systematic analysis
Shaw, Robert L. J.; Hampejs, Tomáš; Zbíral, David
Centre for the Digital Research of Religions, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
HTML XMLThis paper demonstrates a systematic approach to studying the narratives of religious dissidence found in medieval inquisition trial records, adding a new angle to the debate over how medieval heresy was "constructed". It is founded upon a statement-based approach to transforming texts into structured data and employs sequence analysis techniques.
The hidden order in the grammar of artistic attribution
Di Lenardo, Isabella; Guhennec, Paul
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Switzerland
HTML XMLThe contribution explores how qualifiers in photo libraries metadata and art history historiography shape hierarchical attributions. Based on 'Contact' and 'Close' qualifiers, we signify distinct artistic production and critical impact. This wide-ranging analysis sheds light on evolving art historiography, emphasizing shifts in authorial roles throughout history.