Distant Reader - subject-devil-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 11 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 896,254 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 81,477 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 95. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

god, will, may, men, hee, christ, vnto, satan, shall, one, first, yet, us, man, doth, things, great, make, good, now, also, haue, must, many, spirit, sin, power, much, like, life, heart, way, see, though, say, therefore, doe, made, might, come, world, vpon, time, take, true, without, father, day, grace, wee

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The admirable history of the posession and conuersion of a penitent woman Seduced by a magician that made her to become a witch, and the princesse of sorcerers in the country of Prouince, who was brought to S. Baume to bee exorcised, in the yeare 1610, in the moneth of Nouember, by the authority of the reuerend father, and frier, Sebastian Michaëlis, priour of the couent royall of S. Magdalene at Saint Maximin, and also of the said place of Saint Baume. Who appointed the reuerend father, Frier Francis Domptius, Doctor of Diuinity, in the Vniuersity of Louaine, ... for the exorcismes and recollection of the acts. All faithfully set down, and fully verified. Wherunto is annexed a pneumology, or discourse of spirits made by the said father Michaëlis, ... Translated into English by W.B., The Christian in compleat armour. Or, A treatise of the saints war against the Devil, wherein a discovery is made of that grand enemy of God and his people, in his policies, power, seat of his empire, wickednesse, and chiefe designe he hath against the saints. A magazin open''d: from whence the Christian is furnished with spiritual armes for the battel, help''t on with his armour, and taught the use of his weapon, together with the happy issue of the whole warre. The first part. / By William Gurnall, Minister of the Gospel in Lavenham. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamy., and Demonologia sacra, or, A treatise of Satan''s temptations in three parts / by Richard Gilpin..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

christ iesus, holy ghost, god will, let us, vnto vs, must needs, take heed, god doth, father michaelis, iesus christ, eternal life, vnto god, tells us, sauiour christ, evil day, heavenly creature, will make, many things, every one, hee will, blessed sacrament, wicked men, wicked spirits, many times, father francis, almighty power, euery one, may bee, shall see, first creation, may see, satan doth, early english, english books, dominican father, two things, may observe, nothing else, like vnto, great god, francis billet, good angels, blessed mother, hee doth, satan will, right hand, one another, will come, let vs, books online

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The wonderfull and true relation of the bewitching a young girle in Ireland, what way she was tormented, and a receipt of the ointment that she was cured with. A vvonder in Stafford-shire; or, A Staffordshire wonder. Of a strange and horrible apparition of the divell, appearing to one James Fisher a phrenatick neare Brummingham late in the night, in the shape of one of his brethren as hee was going to one of their meeting places. Together with their severall discourses and disputes betwixt this phrenatick and the divell, to the shame and terrour of all other sectarians. Being published as a warning-piece to all other people to beware that they are not seduced into such eronious and damnable opinions. Being testified by Mr. John Hill, and Mr. Francis Collins, and one Mr. Peck living in the towne of Brummingham, besides many hundreds more, which for brevity sake we omit., and The Christian in compleat armour. Or, A treatise of the saints war against the Devil, wherein a discovery is made of that grand enemy of God and his people, in his policies, power, seat of his empire, wickednesse, and chiefe designe he hath against the saints. A magazin open''d: from whence the Christian is furnished with spiritual armes for the battel, help''t on with his armour, and taught the use of his weapon, together with the happy issue of the whole warre. The first part. / By William Gurnall, Minister of the Gospel in Lavenham. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamy..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, lord, church, christ, spirit, world, tcp, satan, saints, angels, scripture, psal, man, gospel, gods, father, devil, scriptures, prince, power, paul, men, life, law, king, iesus, hell, diuell, devill, court, cor, christian, apostle, worship, word, witches, wilderness, wee, vnto, virgin, verrine, understanding, truth, trade, thy, thoughts, thou, thing, temptation, synagogue

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be god, and A wakening call, or, An alarm from heaven to the wise and foolish virgins wherein the vices of this age is laid open and bewail''d, the sublety of Satan discover''d in his temptations in several particulars ... : likewise there is discovered the nature of regeneration or the new birth, in several particulars ... / from a minister in the country to a minister in the city for the publication. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

things, men, man, way, hee, heart, time, sin, day, power, others, t, doth, life, thing, nothing, grace, truth, hath, faith, body, world, reason, nature, soule, place, saints, word, temptations, self, hand, end, death, art, scripture, words, part, selfe, temptation, thoughts, strength, thy, work, father, people, children, manner, name, times, love

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, was, have, were, had, do, said, did, make, being, see, say, made, come, take, been, vnto, hath, know, put, let, give, set, done, haue, go, am, doth, called, think, makes, bee, bring, came, tell, cast, doe, found, stand, consider, given, answered, fall, brought, saying, tempted, according, taken

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, thou, satan, christ, 〉, ◊, 〈, hath, hee, men, lord, spirit, magdalene, wee, diuell, doe, angels, devil, s., haue, heaven, gods, verrine, church, c., man, father, christian, belzebub, gospel, world, hell, paul, saint, bee, life, holy, yea, iesus, hast, power, magician, chap, christians, diuels, david, art, louyse, ye, cor

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

he, his, it, they, their, them, him, i, you, we, our, thy, us, her, your, my, me, himself, thee, themselves, she, its, one, vp, ''em, vnto, theirs, ours, mine, yours, ye, hee, ●, ha, s, l, elias, whereof, u, hers, 〈, thou, non, myself, itself, herself, hel, f, ''s, yee

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

such, great, other, many, good, same, own, more, true, first, much, little, able, wicked, last, whole, present, greater, full, new, second, holy, spiritual, doth, high, most, greatest, least, evil, saith, strong, very, like, old, common, false, particular, strange, better, right, ready, natural, best, eternal, poor, former, few, several, necessary, ordinary

not, so, then, now, also, more, up, therefore, first, thus, out, as, yet, only, most, very, secondly, well, here, much, never, indeed, there, ever, away, thirdly, in, sometimes, down, off, rather, forth, too, that, is, often, thereof, onely, together, still, further, even, on, no, far, hence, easily, long, all, once

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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