Oscillation between Contemplation and Revelation: Recurrence and Change in the Life History of Teresa of Ávila

Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo*, Jan Kostkan, Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig, Ekaterina Borisova, Armin W. Geertz

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Abstract

Advancements in language technology and applied mathematics offer a plethora of tools that can enrich textual cultural heritage research. Using an information-theoretical approach to author profiling, this paper tries to leverage some of these tools to reconstruct mental states in the Early Modern Spanish author Teresa of Ávila. We shift away from traditional static textual feature analysis and instead approach author profiling as a dynamic problem, requiring a representation of the author’s life history. Teresa of Ávila was an Early Modern Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun whose authorship offers a unique dataset due to her prolific output and well-preserved, digitized writings. We model Teresa’s letter corpus as a complex system with multiple states and try to track her mental and socio-cultural dynamics through lexical co-occurrence structures and affective valences in her letters. We find that Teresa’s letters reflect a life history of state switching between contemplation and revelation. This relatively new approach offers a more robust and dynamic perspective on author profiling in cultural heritage research.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelComputational Humanities Research 2023 : Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023
RedaktørerArtjoms Šeļa, Fotis Jannidis, Iza Romanowska
Antal sider19
ForlagCEUR-WS.org
Publikationsdato21 nov. 2023
Sider715-733
StatusUdgivet - 21 nov. 2023
NavnCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Vol/bind3558
ISSN1613-0073

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