Visualizing Mouvance: Toward a visual analysis of variant medieval text traditions.

Medieval literary traditions provide a particularly challenging test case for textual alignment and the visualization of variance. Whereas the editors of medieval traditions working with the printed page struggle to illustrate the complex phenomena of textual instability, research in screen-based vi...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 32; pp. 106 - 124
Autores principales: Jänicke, Stefan, Wrisley, David Joseph
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA 2017 Supplement
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          Institut für Informatik, Leipzig University, Germany
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        Medieval literature
        Medieval poetry
        Literary criticism
        Content analysis
        Data visualization
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