subject-henryViiiKingOfEngland-gutenberg

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 2021-06-06 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader gutenberg process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of Project Gutenberg -- facet_subject:"Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547". Then, for future reference, the results were saved to a Zip file complete with rudimentary bibliographics. The name of the file is input-file.zip. The Zip file was then unpacked and the contents saved to a cache as well as a directory 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 9 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 999,544 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 111,060 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 77. 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:

king, henry, one, daye, paied, sir, england, will, might, pope, time, now, made, may, footnote, see, emperor, great, lord, two, english, wolsey, lady, good, well, anne, day, first, marriage, part, man, charles, must, yet, queen, much, chapuys, shall, without, grace, vol, france, court, however, even, men, vj, many, long, iiij

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Henry VIII., The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII, and The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History.

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

daye paied, sir osborne, henry viii, anne boleyn, day paied, sir payan, yet payment, spanish calendar, princess mary, sir thomas, lady constance, henry vii, state papers, osborne maurice, lord darby, sir cesar, sir william, old man, sir john, lady katrine, every one, french king, payan wileton, moche money, rolls house, young knight, de grey, lady anne, holy see, house ms, queen catherine, one quarter, iiij xx, yorke place, constance de, let us, general council, french ambassador, jekin groby, hampton court, two years, de la, jane seymour, privy council, sir knight, du bellay, calendar henry, replied sir, clement vii, wages due

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period.

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:

henry, king, anne, wolsey, viii, england, sir, queen, mary, lord, france, duke, boleyn, rome, pope, london, french, francis, english, cromwell, charles, princess, master, lady, john, god, emperor, court, clement, church, chapuys, catherine, bishop, thomas, reformation, parliament, katharine, ibid, ferdinand, europe, elizabeth, edward, earl, cardinal, calendar, william, wileton, wilbraham, ven, tudor

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 king, and The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) 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:

1. king - Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold
2. henry - Henry VIII.
3. daye - The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII

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:

1. henry, king, pope - Henry VIII.
2. sir, said, knight - Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold
3. daye, paied, king - The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII
4. department, consists, im - The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes
5. department, consists, im - The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes

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?":

daye, king, p., time, ~s, man, day, marriage, grace, men, way, knight, part, years, people, nothing, life, place, hand, cause, lady, divorce, power, law, death, war, world, daughter, letter, wife, court, side, person, one, moment, money, father, case, matter, days, realm, brother, authority, mind, son, persons, head, name, woman, things

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:

was, had, be, were, is, have, been, paied, said, are, i[~t]m, made, do, did, see, has, being, make, sent, found, brought, take, say, given, having, come, thought, came, replied, done, paid, give, know, told, left, called, go, taken, passed, wrote, took, cried, let, knew, bringing, went, put, seen, gave, held

Proper Nouns

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

_, henry, king, england, sir, d., pope, ~s, wolsey, ., anne, emperor, i[~t]m, king[s, lord, charles, footnote, queen, france, vol, catherine, katharine, francis, rewarde, mary, osborne, chapuys, cromwell, rome, god, lady, viii, p., duke, -l]i, vj, viij, l., church, london, ibid, parliament, princess, ii, bishop, cardinal, thomas, english, john, boleyn

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?"

his, he, it, her, him, i, they, she, their, you, my, them, we, your, himself, me, its, our, us, themselves, herself, itself, myself, yourself, one, ourselves, mine, thy, thee, yours, hers, ij, theirs, ye, ours, yourselves, thyself, ''em, twelf, 45_s, ''s, à, xl, whereof, tybalt.--you, there, themself, ourself, oneself, ne

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?"

same, other, own, great, good, such, more, many, english, first, little, old, french, last, much, new, young, few, long, true, present, high, royal, certain, possible, poor, full, best, whole, second, least, small, necessary, political, next, due, only, general, spanish, various, large, open, ready, imperial, better, most, able, spiritual, common, private

not, so, now, more, as, then, only, well, most, however, even, never, up, very, still, also, too, out, again, ever, once, yet, much, here, far, down, soon, there, thus, perhaps, therefore, long, indeed, away, no, on, already, first, all, back, probably, always, almost, off, just, rather, afterwards, before, less, together

Next steps

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