Researching late medieval/early modern (14th-16th c.) gender, religious practice, dance, and materiality. PhD student UVA. Public Historian. she/they 🏳️🌈.
Heidi Zmick
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This was such a wonderful exercise and a great class!
Several of the students in the class I am TAing this semester are also in a course on Beowulf with @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social
One used their own translations of Beowulf throughout their essay on queenship in Beowulf for my class - inter-departmental crossover is the best!
The first of these two photos is the frequency of use of different spellings of (lemma=)"dog" in early English texts - 'dog' being by far the most common. Shout out to doggue with 24 hits
"king of the Franks"
Among the wurst puns I've seen
Oh look how she has changed! The latin alphabet from circa 600-1200 C.E.
I am at @rarebookschool.bsky.social this week for a paleography course led by @lisafdavis.bsky.social
First day at @pricelab.bsky.social Dream Lab done!
For my course on Digital Methods for Early Modern Books, I got to see some beautiful early modern books, including this New Kreüterbůch full of herbal/medicinal plants!
Pictured are various squashes and mouse-ear hawkweed.
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Day 2 of Dream Lab @pricelab.bsky.social complete! Today, we covered OCR and HTR and how to process unstructured data (texts) into structured data through Tf-Idf. After that, we learned 3 methods to understand similarities between texts using Tf-Idf, LDA (topic modeling), and XML tagging!
