Since the middle of the 17th century, scholars have been systematically describing numerous medieval manuscripts preserved in libraries and religious institutions that contain hagiographic texts, that is texts recounting the lives of saints. In this talk, we will show how one can apply quantitative tools to the resulting database to consider these codices from a new point of view.
„Sébastien de Valeriola: Mining legendaries: a quantitative approach to hagiographic manuscripts“ weiterlesen