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Title: 

Locating Medieval French, or Why We Collect and Visualize the Geographic Information of Texts

Authors: Wrisley, David Joseph
Keywords: digital humanities;spatial humanities;medieval French;geography
Issue Date: Oct-2017
Citation: Locating Medieval French, or Why We Collect and Visualize the Geographic Information of Texts David Joseph Wrisley Speculum 2017 92:S1, S145-S169
Series/Report no.: S1;
Abstract: This article focuses on geographic information contained in the body of medieval French texts composed over the period of the eleventh to the fifteenth century. By “geographic information” we mean textual references made to different kinds of place names at different scales within sustained prose or poetic narrative—landmarks, settlements, regions, and countries—real and imaginary. Collecting such geographic information across a large corpus of texts and analyzing it with the digital methods that have become available to scholars in recent years allow us to create new contexts in which we can reexamine a variety of questions in literary history.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/43462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/694300
Rights: open access
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