IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1209: Whodunit?: Literary Forensics and Authorship Attribution for the Middle Ages
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Mike Kestemont, Centrum Nederlandse Literatuurgeschiedenis, Universiteit Antwerpen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sabrina Corbellini, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 9712 EK GRONINGEN |
| Paper 1209-a | One, Two, or Three Authors?: A Medieval Detective Story Involving a Teutonic Order's Chronicle - An Interim Report (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Dutch, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1209-b | How Judith Inspired a Scribe to Become an Author (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Dutch, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1209-c | The Author and the School: Authorship Detection and the Case of the Antwerp Poets, c. 1300-1350 (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Dutch, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Authorship attribution has been around for as long as people were interested in finding out the persons responsible for writing texts. In recent decades, 'stylometric' techniques were developed to assist in these forensic issues. Medieval texts though, are not often subjected to these methods, a consequence of the difficulties caused by spelling variation, the problematic notion of a medieval author, and the omnipresent interference of scribes. We shall discuss the difficulties and possibilities of style-based authorship attribution for medieval texts, using three case studies that allow us to introduce a wider audience to the field of 'non-traditional authorship attribution'. |