The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[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.

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]

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]

La datación supone una de las cuestiones con más interrogantes en el estudio del teatro aurisecular español. La estilometría, técnica informática basada en la comparación de textos en función de sus usos escriturales y que está utilizándose con aparente acierto en los últimos años para arrojar luz sobre el problema de la autoría, puede servir…[Read more]

Claramonte es uno de los dramaturgos que más extraña suerte ha corrido de nuestro patrimonio teatral. Vilipendiado por los primeros estudiosos como plagiario, refundidor y, en definitiva, autor de segundo orden, en las últimas décadas ha resurgido como posible responsable de obras capitales de nuestro teatro. A través del empleo de técnicas estil…[Read more]

La refundición supone un fenómeno recurrente en el teatro aurisecular español. Existen numerosos casos en los que un dramaturgo parte de un texto previo y lo modifica para conformar una nueva obra reutilizando un cierto número de versos. En ocasiones, el paso del tiempo confunde la obra primigenia con la refundición y resulta complicado esta…[Read more]

Does “authorship” still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to uncover the human authors behind the biblical texts. But how might the “death of the author,” so forcefully declared by Roland Barthes over fifty years ago, change the contours of this search? This volume brings together leading experts…[Read more]

This work provides new insights into the relationship between the Holiness legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and processes of cultic centralization in the Persian period. The author departs from the classical theory that Leviticus 17–26 merely presume, with minor modifications, a concept of centralization articulated in Deuteronomy. She shows how Lev…[Read more]

Un elevado porcentaje de impresos y manuscritos teatrales del periodo aurisecular no ha sido nunca transcrito en un formato analógico ni, por supuesto, digital. Es imposible, por tanto, emplear estos documentos para realizar búsquedas de nuestro interés o para los valiosos análisis informáticos (estilometría, topic modelling, detección de sentim…[Read more]

El trabajo propone que se considere la inclusión en el repertorio de Lope de La francesa Laura, una comedia conservada en un manuscrito anónimo de la BNE, nunca antes relacionada con el dramaturgo. La investigación se inició a la vista de los resultados de su procesamiento en las plataformas Transkribus y ETSO, que señalaban la estrecha rela…[Read more]

Early Jewish writings are replete with narratives of warfare and collective violence. Yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to how these accounts of violence affected the way Jews structured their festal calendar. This essay examines the festivals described in 1 and 2 Maccabees that serve to commemorate the most impressive m…[Read more]

This Open Access volume reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “va…[Read more]

Research into emotions is a developing field within Assyriology, and NLP tools for Akkadian texts offers new perspectives on the data. We use PMI-based word embeddings to explore the relationship between parts of the body and emotions. Using data downloaded from Oracc, we ask which parts of the body were semantically linked to emotions. We do this…[Read more]