Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe

Pollmann, Judith

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“…The authorities used them as “dossiers” or “manuals” to orientate themselves and develop policies. When an epidemic threatened a town or region, these “archives of knowledge” were carefully consulted and used as (historical) guidelines (Bakker, 2020; Pollmann, 2016). The way epidemic policies were devised during the so‐called Second Plague Pandemic (between the mid‐15th and late 18th centuries) offers an excellent example of how this was done.…”

Section: The Merit Of a Historicizing Broad Approach To Pandemic Crisesmentioning

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Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with Covid‐19

Graaf

Jensen

Knoeff

et al. 2021

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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In this paper, we address the question on how societies coped with pandemic crises, how they tried to control or adapt to the disease, or even managed to overcome the death trap in history. On the basis of historical research, we describe how societies in the western world accommodated to or exited hardship and restrictive measures over the course of the last four centuries. In particular, we are interested in how historically embedded citizens' resources were directed towards living with and to a certain extent accepting the virus. Such an approach of “applied history” to the management of crises and public hazards, we believe, helps address today's pressing question of what adaptive strategies can be adopted to return to a normalized life, including living with socially acceptable medical, hygienic and other pandemic‐related measures.

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Section: The Merit Of a Historicizing Broad Approach To Pandemic Crisesmentioning

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Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with Covid‐19

Graaf

Jensen

Knoeff

et al. 2021

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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“…This work is the first to investigate chronicles on a large scale and with the use of text mining methods. Early modern Dutch chronicles have only been qualitatively researched up until now (Blaak, 2009;Pollmann, 2016Pollmann, , 2017. The same goes for chronicles in other languages, such as German, where only case studies on a handful chronicles have been published (Rau, 2002;Mauer, 2001).…”

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“…A source of information that might contain the key to answer these questions are early modern chronicles. A chronicle is a text from someone who keeps a record of events happening in their surroundings, who believes that these events are worth recording, and that the best way to structure this information is to do so chronologically (Pollmann, 2016). To fill their chronicle with useful information, early modern chroniclers used a wide variety of information sources, such as pamphlets, newspapers, official announcements, gossips, conversations, songs and other sounds, letters from friends or relatives, or the chronicler themselves functioned as eyewitness.…”

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The Early Modern Dutch Mediascape. Detecting Media Mentions in Chronicles Using Word Embeddings and CRF

Lassche¹,

Morante²

2021

Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities An

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While the production of information in the European early modern period is a wellresearched topic, the question how people were engaging with the information explosion that occurred in early modern Europe, is still underexposed. This paper presents the annotations and experiments aimed at exploring whether we can automatically extract media related information (source, perception, and receiver) from a corpus of early modern Dutch chronicles in order to get insight in the mediascape of early modern middle class people from a historic perspective. In a number of classification experiments with Conditional Random Fields, three categories of features are tested: (i) raw and binary word embedding features, (ii) lexicon features, and (iii) character features. Overall, the classifier that uses raw embeddings performs slightly better. However, given that the best F-scores are around 0.60, we conclude that the machine learning approach needs to be combined with a close reading approach for the results to be useful to answer history research questions.

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“…It was fuelled and fed by popular printed texts like those prepared by Edward Hall, John Stow and Raphael Holinshed, with which it existed in fruitful symbiosis. While chronicles flourished in all kinds of confessional environments (see Pollmann, 2016), their persistence and resilience in England must be understood against the backdrop of significant ruptures in the culture of remembering wrought by the Reformation – the traumatic break in traditional practices of memorialization that resulted from the abolition of purgatory and the mnemonic institutions, rituals and texts that this doctrine had served to engender and buttress (Archer, 2001: 90–3; 2005: 215; Gordon, 2013: 5, 8, 59; Tittler, 1997: 286, 1998: ch. 13, esp.…”

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Chronicles, memory and autobiography in Reformation England

Walsham

2018

Memory Studies

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This article argues that reports of 'the death of the chronicle' in the early modern period have been exaggerated. Through a close analysis of three manuscript chronicles from Worcester, Chester and Shrewsbury, it underscores the vitality and creative evolution of the genre against the backdrop of religious, cultural and technological changes that seriously challenged traditional modes and patterns of memory and commemoration. It explores their role as a mechanism for remembering a contentious recent past and considers how they functioned as a repository or archive of public and private information created by their compilers to be transmitted down the generations. It also probes the relationship between the chronicle and contemporary forms of life-writing that have been described as 'diaries' and 'autobiographies'.

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Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe

Cited by 23 publications

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Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with Covid‐19

Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with Covid‐19

The Early Modern Dutch Mediascape. Detecting Media Mentions in Chronicles Using Word Embeddings and CRF

Chronicles, memory and autobiography in Reformation England

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