The incidence of diseases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) shaped encounters between colonial officials and indigenous people, yet this subject has merited minimum attention in the Ghanaian historiography. This paper examines the colonial healthcare interventions to combat the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Asante and
how the presence…[Read more]

This study highlights the transitions that indigenous medicine and indigenous medical practices have undergone in Asante. It uses a qualitative approach anchored on both primary and secondary sources. The primary data sources include interviews and documentary data derived from reports in historical archives. Anchored on rational choice contingent…[Read more]

This study highlights the transitions that indigenous medicine and indigenous medical practices have undergone in Asante. It uses a qualitative approach anchored on both primary and secondary sources. The primary data sources include interviews and documentary data derived from reports in historical archives. Anchored on rational choice contingent…[Read more]

The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

A high percentage of theatrical prints and manuscripts from the aurisecular period have never been transcribed in an analogical or, of course, digital format. It is therefore impossible to use these documents to carry out searches of our interest or for the valuable computer analyses (stylometry, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, etc.) that…[Read more]

A high percentage of theatrical prints and manuscripts from the aurisecular period have never been transcribed in an analogical or, of course, digital format. It is therefore impossible to use these documents to carry out searches of our interest or for the valuable computer analyses (stylometry, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, etc.) that…[Read more]

TEXORO: Textos del Siglo de Oro es una herramienta desarrollada por Álvaro Cuéllar y Germán Vega que permite realizar búsquedas en un amplio corpus de teatro del Siglo de Oro. Es nuestra intención que un futuro crezca ofreciendo otros tipos de textos fuera del ámbito teatral.

TEXORO: Textos del Siglo de Oro es una herramienta desarrollada por Álvaro Cuéllar y Germán Vega que permite realizar búsquedas en un amplio corpus de teatro del Siglo de Oro. Es nuestra intención que un futuro crezca ofreciendo otros tipos de textos fuera del ámbito teatral.

El proyecto ETSO: Estilometría aplicada al Teatro del Siglo de Oro surge del interés del investigador Álvaro Cuéllar y del catedrático Germán Vega García-Luengos en aplicar las nuevas herramientas informáticas a los numerosos problemas de autoría que presenta el teatro del Siglo de Oro español. Este portal trata de ofrecer análisis que puedan arr…[Read more]

El proyecto ETSO: Estilometría aplicada al Teatro del Siglo de Oro surge del interés del investigador Álvaro Cuéllar y del catedrático Germán Vega García-Luengos en aplicar las nuevas herramientas informáticas a los numerosos problemas de autoría que presenta el teatro del Siglo de Oro español. Este portal trata de ofrecer análisis que puedan arr…[Read more]

Finding the accurate date of texts is one of the most puzzling challenges in the study of Spanish aurisecular theater. Stylometry, the computer technique centered on the comparison of texts based on their writing, which has been successfully used in recent years to solve authorship questions, can also serve to shed light on this issue. In this…[Read more]

Finding the accurate date of texts is one of the most puzzling challenges in the study of Spanish aurisecular theater. Stylometry, the computer technique centered on the comparison of texts based on their writing, which has been successfully used in recent years to solve authorship questions, can also serve to shed light on this issue. In this…[Read more]

Claramonte is one of the playwrights who has had the most unusual fate in our theatrical heritage. Reviled by early scholars as a plagiarist, recaster and, ultimately, a second-order author, in recent decades he has reemerged as a possible author of capital works of our theatre. Using stylometric techniques that have been proven to be effective…[Read more]

Claramonte is one of the playwrights who has had the most unusual fate in our theatrical heritage. Reviled by early scholars as a plagiarist, recaster and, ultimately, a second-order author, in recent decades he has reemerged as a possible author of capital works of our theatre. Using stylometric techniques that have been proven to be effective…[Read more]

This article proposes the inclusion in Lope’s repertoire of La francesa Laura, a comedia preserved in an anonymous manuscript of the BNE, never before related to the playwright. The investigation started thanks to the results of the process in the Transkribus and ETSO platforms, which pointed out the close relationship of the lexicon with the…[Read more]

This article proposes the inclusion in Lope’s repertoire of La francesa Laura, a comedia preserved in an anonymous manuscript of the BNE, never before related to the playwright. The investigation started thanks to the results of the process in the Transkribus and ETSO platforms, which pointed out the close relationship of the lexicon with the…[Read more]