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Stylometry for Noisy Medieval Data: Evaluating Paul Meyer's Hagiographic Hypothesis

Jean-Baptiste Camps
Thibault Clérice
Ariane Pinche

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Stylometric analysis of medieval vernacular texts is still a significant challenge: the importance of scribal variation, be it spelling or more substantial, as well as the variants and errors introduced in the tradition, complicate the task of the would-be stylometrist. Basing the analysis on the study of the copy from a single hand of several texts can partially mitigate these issues (Camps & Cafiero, 2013), but the limited availability of complete diplomatic transcriptions might make this difficult. In this paper, we use a workflow combining handwritten text recognition and stylometric analysis, applied to the case of the hagiographic works contained in MS BnF, fr. 412. We seek to evaluate Paul Meyer's hypothesis about the constitution of groups of hagiographic works, as well as to examine potential authorial groupings in a vastly anonymous corpus.
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halshs-03044106 , version 1 (07-12-2020)

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Jean-Baptiste Camps, Thibault Clérice, Ariane Pinche. Stylometry for Noisy Medieval Data: Evaluating Paul Meyer's Hagiographic Hypothesis. 2019. ⟨halshs-03044106⟩
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