Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Texts

Roberto J. González Zalacain is a lecturer in Medieval History at the University of La Laguna. His research focuses on several thematic areas, including the family in late medieval Castile, the late medieval maritime world, the colonization of the Canary Islands following its conquest, and Digital Humanities, among others.Gael Vaamonde is associate professor in the Department of Spanish Language at the University of Granada. He is particularly interested in the study of the Spanish language using corpus-based approaches and in the application of computational techniques aimed at linguistic research. His main research areas are corpus linguistics, Spanish grammar, digital humanities, and historical linguistics.

• Preface; Humanidades Digitales as Knowledge Infrastructure; Part I Linguistic Approaches; 1. Using “Small and Tidy” Historical Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation in Early Modern Spanish. New Possibilities in the Paradigm of Digital Humanities; 2. Digital Humanities Serving the History of Spanish: Hierarchical Clustering Analysis for Establishing a Periodisation of the Language; 3. Rhyme Within Reason: an Emotion Analysis Approach to Rhyme in a Historical Corpus; Part II Literary Approaches; 4. Mapping Early Modern Hispanic Mythological Poems with Recogito; 5. Libraries as Data and Infrastructure Providers for Computational Literary Studies in Spanish; 6. The Writing and the Territory: Argentina Revisited in Digital Scholarly Editions; 7. Stylometric Evaluation of Parameters and Distance Measures for Hispanic Texts; Part III Historical and Cultural Approaches; 8. Digital Humanities at the Intersection of Philology and History: the CORDICan Project;9. From Coffer to Byte: an Online Medieval Archive; 10. Life Writing Rewired: The Case of the Archive of Biographical Writings in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia; 11. Goldsmithing Data: Features and Methodological Challenges of the Use of Prosopography