The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
Nearly all of Middle Dutch narrative literature (ca. 1200-1500) was written in rhyming couplets, which is why rhyme words are extremely suitable for the comparative study of Middle Dutch epic texts and authors. My research specifically focuses on three aspects: (a) the evolution of rhyme in the vernacular epic poetry of the medieval Low Countries; (b) the usefulness of rhyme words for authorship verification and attribution; (c) the correlation ...