Stylometry for Aurality in Medieval Anglo-Latin Hagiography (900–1150): Performance, Community and Musicality Ghent University
This project applies the computational analysis of style to aural features of medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900-1150). Although hagiographies possessed a sermonic quality, had a didactic function and were ceremonially recited, the reading practice, delivery contexts and performative dimension of hagiography is still poorly understood. By introducing a data-driven analysis of hagiographies’ aural features (such as rhyme, rhythm, metre, and ...