In addition to publishing articles and books and what not, there are also rare opportunities to present some of our research on other media. I was honoured to appear on the season finale of the Dutch podcast 'Middeleeuwen', expertly presented and produced by Timo Epping.
He is not the most well-known companion of Saint Willibrord, but Werenfrid ('Werenfridus') has enjoyed a steady veneration for centuries. And then at the end of the second world war, his relics disappeared from the church of Elst (the Netherlands). Anne-Ruth Groen has produced a…
Using language modeling and the information-theoretic concept of perplexity, Friederike, Gleb, and myself explore the influence of the Bible on early medieval canon law. We demonstrate that calculating perplexity of a corpus of canon law under a language model trained exclusively on Scripture can serve…
The work on this edition started long before the SOLEMNE project saw the light, but since the text under consideration (the ‘Collection in 400 chapters‘) is relevant to the project, its publication after many years deserves mention here. Although the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a…