8  Ideas

8.1 Sample Research Questions

• Which texts discuss a certain topic, i.e. cooking, regardless of what words they use?
• How should early modern professions be categorized, and how are they different from modern categories?
• How did early modern people deal with quantification and computation?

8.2 Tools and Websites

• EarlyPrint Corpus Search Beta
• EarlyPrint Bibliographia
• MALLET
• Nomic Atlas

8.3 Activities

• See the Corpora section!

8.4 References

• Furner (2016)
• Lavin (2021)
• Wernimont (2019)
• Ahnert and Ahnert (2019)
• Langmead et al. (2016)
• Bode (2017)
• Bolla et al. (2020)

Ahnert, Ruth, and Sebastian E. Ahnert. 2019. “Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State.” History Workshop Journal 87 (April): 27–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dby033.

Bode, Katherine. 2017. “The Equivalence of ‘Close’ And ‘Distant’ Reading; Or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History.” Modern Language Quarterly 78 (1): 77–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3699787.

Bolla, Peter de, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia, and John Regan. 2020. “The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800: A Distributional Concept Analysis.” Journal of the History of Ideas 81 (3): 381–406. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/761035.

Furner, Jonathan. 2016. “‘Data’: The Data.” In Information Cultures in the Digital Age: A Festschrift in Honor of Rafael Capurro, edited by Matthew Kelly and Jared Bielby, 287–306. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14681-8_17.

Langmead, Alison, Jessica M. Otis, Christopher Warren, Scott B. Weingart, and Lisa D. Zilinkski. 2016. “Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing,Intl J Humanities & Arts Computing 10 (1): 22–35. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2016.0157.

Lavin, Matthew. 2021. “Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data over Capta.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 015 (2).

Wernimont, Jacqueline. 2019. Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media. Edited by Elizabeth Losh and Celia Pearce. Media Origins. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.