Distant Reader - subject-visitationsEcclesiastical-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 2021-05-25 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 20 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 124,973 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 6,248 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 84. 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:

church, doth, parish, minister, whether, haue, time, without, holy, within, text, tcp, common, god, according, prayer, one, bishop, every, persons, communion, england, person, doe, may, wardens, articles, law, eebo, either, service, set, english, men, book, ecclesiastical, divine, present, made, books, thereof, curate, will, concerning, good, appointed, chappel, tei, place, take

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Articles to be enquired of vvithin the diocesse of London In the third trienniall visitation of the Right Honourable, and Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of London, Lord High Treasurer of England. Holden in the yeare of our Lord God, 1640, Articles to be inquired of vvithin the dioces of Norwich in the first visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God, Matthevv, Lord Bishop of Norwich., and Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Ely in the second episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Peter by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely in the fifth year of his translation..

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

common prayer, divine service, early english, english books, diuine seruice, books online, holy communion, whether doth, page images, text creation, creation partnership, whether haue, set forth, lord bishop, every parish, reverend father, represented either, image sets, characters represented, tcp schema, parish church, doth hee, right reverend, ecclesiastical law, every sunday, whether doe, haue heard, lords supper, part thereof, without asking, popish recusants, will never, image set, images scanned, institutions providing, bit group, asking permission, encoded text, xml conversion, online text, pfs batch, creative commons, iv tiff, tcp assigned, financial support, providing financial, holy orders, tiff page, work described, encoded edition

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Articles to be inquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, in the ordinarie visitation of the reuerend father in God, Lancelot Lord Bishop of Elie, within the Diocesse of Elie, Ann. 1613. Articles of enquiry concerning certain matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the church-wardens and side-men of every parish within the arch-deaconry of Huntington; for their better direction in their presentments in the visitation of John Hammond, Arch-Deacon of Huntington., and Articles of instruction for enquiry, exhibited to the church-wardens and side-men within the peculiar jurisdiction of the King''s Free Chappel of S. Maires in Salop..

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:

church, parish, minister, tcp, communion, prayer, chappel, service, england, ecclesiasticall, chappell, bishop, persons, people, law, holy, ecclesiastical, duty, curate, clergy, churches, care

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 church, and Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocess of Lincoln, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Robert ... Lord Bishop of Lincoln. 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?":

church, time, parish, doth, person, persons, text, wardens, men, articles, place, texts, day, books, names, houses, characters, things, prayer, people, side, times, euery, images, xml, visitation, part, ▪, item, children, thing, others, house, hath, works, man, work, case, page, order, yard, way, image, edition, keying, elements, eebo, table, project, encoding

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, have, do, doth, was, according, were, been, said, being, made, set, appointed, concerning, take, belonging, make, come, read, kept, taken, know, present, refuse, encoded, given, prescribed, heard, did, hath, teach, had, established, published, chosen, allowed, licensed, give, based, suspected, use, preach, baptized, haue, having, instruct, say, married

Proper Nouns

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

church, minister, parish, hath, god, haue, tcp, doth, holy, bishop, england, communion, ●, doe, prayer, law, service, chappel, lord, curate, common, ecclesiastical, 〉, divine, book, ecclesiasticall, text, seruice, oxford, tei, eebo, 〈, sunday, parson, ◊, english, bishops, chappell, sermon, i., diuine, c., parishioners, authority, iv, ordinary, lords, london, preacher, office

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?"

your, he, their, his, you, they, it, them, him, i, our, we, themselves, himself, her, my, us, me, ''s, she, yours, its, whether, vp, whereof, thee, pe, vnto, one, ch, ay

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?"

other, such, same, common, good, early, due, own, sufficient, english, true, holy, least, first, more, decent, available, publick, parish, general, last, doth, great, whole, convenient, dead, private, present, large, second, publike, illegible, greater, ancient, many, fit, several, necessary, divine, diligent, usual, ordinary, particular, able, original, absent, honest, ecclesiastical, priuate, lawfull

not, so, then, there, thereof, also, well, as, now, only, otherwise, up, duly, together, in, therefore, therein, forth, very, first, lawfully, diligently, yet, online, more, out, most, once, even, sufficiently, often, down, decently, openly, never, long, usually, publickly, especially, away, reverently, comely, over, much, far, thereby, constantly, before, truly, publikely

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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