Medieval Authorship and Statistical Analysis
Reconsidering Jehan de Saint-Quentin's "oeuvre" in the Digital Age
Sebastian Dows-Miller(Author)
Arc Humanities Press
Will be published approx. on 31. May 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-80270-485-3 (ISBN)
Description
Medieval authorship is a fragile concept, yet digital approaches offer a path towards clarity. This book examines the work of Jehan de Saint-Quentin, an under-studied author from fourteenth-century France who has been credited with twenty-four poems, but whose name only appears in one of them. This volume expands Jehan's oeuvre through the addition of two new poems, namely Le dit de Guillaume d'Engleterre and Le dit de Robert le Deable. It also identifies echoes of two lost works by the same author in La vie saint Jehan Paulus and Richard sans Peur.
Through this case study, the book offers a new model for the field, demonstrating how humanistic approaches and reproducible data can combine in bespoke ways to unlock new insights about medieval literature.
Through this case study, the book offers a new model for the field, demonstrating how humanistic approaches and reproducible data can combine in bespoke ways to unlock new insights about medieval literature.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
43 s/w Tabellen, 3 s/w Zeichnungen, 13 s/w Abbildungen
3 Line drawings, black and white; 43 Tables, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-80270-485-3 (9781802704853)
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Sebastian Dows-Miller
Medieval Authorship and Statistical Analysis
Reconsidering Jehan de Saint-Quentin's "oeuvre" in the Digital Age
Book
approx. 06/2026
Arc Humanities Press
€152.50
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Person
Sebastian Dows-Miller is an Early Career Research Fellow at University College London, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He received his DPhil. from the University of Oxford in January 2025, where he also spent time as a college lecturer in French.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Methodology
Chapter 2. Form
Chapter 3. Genre
Chapter 4. Terms of Address
Chapter 5. Possessive Adjectives
Chapter 6. Versification
Chapter 7. Shared Vocabulary and Structures
Chapter 8. Sources
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index operum
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Methodology
Chapter 2. Form
Chapter 3. Genre
Chapter 4. Terms of Address
Chapter 5. Possessive Adjectives
Chapter 6. Versification
Chapter 7. Shared Vocabulary and Structures
Chapter 8. Sources
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index operum